Canadian Action Party

Canadian Action Party Parti action canadienne

Leader	Jeremy Arney
President	Jeff Sakula
Founder	Paul T. Hellyer
Founded	1997
Split from	Liberal Party
Headquarters	788 Mabel Lake Rd., Lumby, British Columbia
Ideology	Canadian nationalism Civic nationalism Social liberalism Anti-Americanism Anti-globalization Monetary reform
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	None
Colours	Red
House of Commons	0 / 308
Senate	0 / 105
Website
actionparty.ca/
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The Canadian Action Party (CAP) (French: Parti action canadienne, PAC) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. It promotes Canadian nationalism, monetary and electoral reform, and opposes liberal globalization and the free trade agreements that have been signed by the Canadian government.

Background

The Canadian Action Party (CAP) was founded by Paul T. Hellyer, a former Liberal minister of defence in the cabinet of Lester B. Pearson. Hellyer ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1968, and for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976.

CAP nominated candidates for the first time in the 1997 federal election.

After the 1997 election, it absorbed the Canada Party, another minor party concerned about monetary reform which had been formed by former members of the Social Credit Party of Canada. Former Canada Party leader Claire Foss served as vice president of CAP until November 2003.

Hellyer resigned as CAP leader in 2003 after the New Democratic Party didn't agree to a merger proposal, under which the NDP would change its name. In 2004, Connie Fogal, an activist lawyer, was acclaimed party leader after David Orchard failed to respond to an invitation to take over the leadership. Fogal stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Andrew J. Moulden following the 2008 federal election.

Positions

A number of CAP members also belong to the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) and have been influential in developing CAP's monetary policy, particularly its position that the Bank of Canada, rather than chartered banks, should provide loans to the government, if required, to fund public spending.

CAP also argues for the abrogation of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and opposes current government trade initiatives and any legislation leading to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Trans-Pacific Partnership(TPP) and what it sees as integration with the United States and Mexico into a North American Union.^[1]

Federal leaders

Shown by default in chronological order of leadership

Year	Name	Period	Time in office	Deputy leader/s
2005	Paul Hellyer	1997 – 2004	7 years
2004	Connie Fogal	2004 – November 2008	4 years
2008	Andrew J. Moulden	November 2008 – August 2009		12 months
2009	Dave Wilkinson	August 2009 – October 2009	2 months
2009	Melissa Brade	October 2009 – September 2010	11 months
2010	Christopher Porter	September 2010 – July 2012	1 year
2012	Jason Chase	July 2012 – April 2014	1 year
2014	Jeremy Arney	April 2014 – present	incumbent

Presidents

Shown by default in chronological order of leadership

Year	Name	Period	Time in office
2003	Claire Foss	??? – 2003	???
2003	Connie Fogal	2003 – 2004	1 year
2005	Catherine Whelan Costen	November 2005 - January 2007	1 year
2007	Bev Collins	February 2007 - 2008	1 year
2008	Marc Bombois	2008 - August 2008	??
2008	Paul Kemp	August 2008 - 2009	1 year
2009	Calvin Keats	2009 - February 2010	1 year
2010	Noelene Smith	July 2010 – 2011	1 year
2012	Maggie Braun	2012 - November 2013	1 year
2013	Jeremy Arney	December 2013 - April 2014	4 months
2014	Logan Anderson	May 2014 – May 2015	1 year
2015	Jeff Sakula	May 2015 – present	incumbent

Electoral results

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	Position	Government
1997	Paul T. Hellyer	17,502	0.13%	0 / 308	9/10	NO seats
2000	Paul T. Hellyer	27,103	0.21%	0 / 308	8/11	NO seats
2004	Connie Fogal	8,807	0.06%	0 / 308	9/12	NO seats
2006	Connie Fogal	6,102	0.04%	0 / 308	10/15	NO seats
2008	Connie Fogal	3,455	0.02%	0 / 338	11/19	NO seats
2011	Christopher Porter	2,030	0.01%	0 / 338	13/18	NO seats
2015	Jeremy Arney	401	0.00%	0 / 338	17/23	NO seats

Date	By-Election	Candidate	# of votes	% of popular vote	Place	Winner
Mar 30, 1998	Port Moody-Coquitlam	Will Arlow	156	0.54%	6/8	Lou Sekora (Liberal)
Nov 15, 1999	York West	Stephen Burega	242	1.78%	5/6	Judy Sgro (Liberal)
Sep 11, 2000	Okanagan-Coquihalla	Jack William Peach	1,159	4.19%	4/8	Stockwell Day (Alliance)
Nov 27, 2006	London North Centre	Will Arlow	29	0.13%	7/7	Glen Pearson (Liberal)
Nov 27, 2006	Repentigny	Mahmood Raza Baig	91	0.29%	6/7	Raymond Gravel (Bloc)
Sep 17, 2007	Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot	Michel St-Onge	61	0.19%	7/7	Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac (Bloc)
Sep 17, 2007	Outremont	Alexandre Amirizian	45	0.19%	10/12	Thomas Mulcair (New Democrat)
Mar 17, 2008	Toronto Centre	Doug Plumb	97	0.40%	6/6	Bob Rae (Liberal)
Mar 17, 2008	Vancouver Quadra	Psamuel Frank	40	0.14%	6/6	Joyce Murray (Liberal)

References

↑ CAP policy on the economy

External links

Official website
Canadian Action Party I- Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups - Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries
Canadian Action Party II - Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups - Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries

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