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Increasing social programs such as public health care (including dental) and education and a dramatic raise in taxes of all forms (except small business taxes). They support giving more money to the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], [[Quebec]], and the arts. They favor heavier regulation in all aspects of the economy.

Increasing social programs such as public health care (including dental) and education and a dramatic raise in taxes of all forms (except small business taxes). They support giving more money to the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], [[Quebec]], and the arts. They favor heavier regulation in all aspects of the economy.

The federal NDP is ideologically further to the Left than the currently-ruling Liberals, as are its provincial wings, and they often align with the Liberals on a number of issues, including [[environmentalism]], [[abortion]], tax increases, the [[homosexual agenda]], [[multiculturalism]], imposition of [[Islam]], Aboriginal issues, leniency toward criminals and the "legalization" of [[marijuana]]. The NDP have never held power federally, although their provincial wings have formed governments in [[British Columbia]], [[Alberta]], [[Saskatchewan]], [[Manitoba]], [[Ontario]], [[Nova Scotia]] and the [[Yukon Territory]]. Past NDP governments in British Columbia (under Mike Harcourt and then Glen Clark, both of whom were forced to resign their offices due to corruption scandals) and in Ontario (under Bob Rae) were highly unpopular with voters in those provinces, as is the current NDP government in Alberta under [[Rachel Notley]] (the daughter of former Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley).

The federal NDP is ideologically further to the Left than the currently-ruling Liberals, as are its provincial wings, and they often align with the Liberals on a number of issues, including [[environmentalism]], [[abortion]], tax increases, the [[homosexual agenda]], [[multiculturalism]], imposition of [[Islam]], Aboriginal issues, leniency toward criminals and the "legalization" of [[marijuana]]. The NDP have never held power federally, although their provincial wings have formed governments in [[British Columbia]], [[Alberta]], [[Saskatchewan]], [[Manitoba]], [[Ontario]], [[Nova Scotia]] and the [[Yukon Territory]]. Past NDP governments in British Columbia (under Mike Harcourt and then Glen Clark, both of whom were forced to resign their offices due to corruption scandals) and in Ontario (under Bob Rae) were highly unpopular with voters in those provinces, as are current NDP governments in Alberta under [[Rachel Notley]] (the daughter of former Alberta NDP leader Grant Notley) and in British Columbia under [[John Horgan]].

The NDP was formed in 1961 through the merger of its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), with the Canadian Labour Congress in an alliance of the political Left and organized labor in Canada. Because of its left-leaning political platforms<ref name="NDP Dark History">[http://www.poletical.com/a-dark-history-of-the-ndp.php The NDP's Dark History]</ref> and an alliance advocated by then-Alberta CCF president William Irvine with the Labor-Progressive Party (which was the name used by the then-outlawed [[Communist Party of Canada]] between 1943 and 1959 to allow them to run in elections), the CCF and its membership (particularly Tommy Douglas<ref name="NDP Dark History"/>) were accused of having ties to Communism.

The NDP was formed in 1961 through the merger of its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), with the Canadian Labour Congress in an alliance of the political Left and organized labor in Canada. Because of its left-leaning political platforms<ref name="NDP Dark History">[http://www.poletical.com/a-dark-history-of-the-ndp.php The NDP's Dark History]</ref> and an alliance advocated by then-Alberta CCF president William Irvine with the Labor-Progressive Party (which was the name used by the then-outlawed [[Communist Party of Canada]] between 1943 and 1959 to allow them to run in elections), the CCF and its membership (particularly Tommy Douglas<ref name="NDP Dark History"/>) were accused of having ties to Communism.