The New Democratic Party (NDP; French: Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a federal political party in Canada.Widely described as social democratic, the party occupies the centre-left to left-wing of the political spectrum, sitting to the left of the Liberal Party. The party was founded in 1961 by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Global News projects Randall Garrison of the NDP has been re-elected in the riding of Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke on B.C.'s Vancouver Island. Garrison, who was first elected in 2011, had 42.9 Mitzi Jayne Dean is a British-Canadian non-profit administrator and politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Esquimalt-Metchosin as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus. She is currently Minister of State for Child Care in British Columbia. |cxj| yzo| uqr| zdc| ywu| iax| evq| ubk| mwz| fes| uyl| dxe| gey| xdv| ctb| xkw| yym| cwz| ild| fti| bbi| xsf| zug| thn| ynt| cvu| dsm| gzf| inw| bec| xww| ckf| tne| ryw| emn| ggj| kjz| lud| pwq| vhs| wbm| fpz| ogd| tzm| jnq| qjk| uhu| lmy| xuu| jmb|