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The Canadian Action Party (CAP) (french: Parti action canadienne, PAC) was a Canadian
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founded in 1997 and deregistered on 31 March 2017. The party stood for
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,
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and
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, and opposed liberal globalization and
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agreements that had been signed by the Canadian government.


History

The Canadian Action Party (CAP) was founded by Paul T. Hellyer, a former
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minister of national defence in the
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of
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. Hellyer ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 1968, and for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in
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. CAP nominated candidates for the first time in the 1997 federal election. After the 1997 election, it absorbed the
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, another minor party concerned about monetary reform which had been formed by former members of the
Social Credit Party of Canada The Social Credit Party of Canada (french: Parti Crédit social du Canada), colloquially known as the Socreds, was a populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. It was the federal wing of the Canadi ...
. Former Canada Party leader Claire Foss served as vice president of CAP until November 2003. Hellyer resigned as CAP leader in 2003 after the
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(NDP) 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
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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. The acting
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advised the party leader that the party will be deregistered effective Friday, March 31, 2017, for not having at least 250 members who are eligible voters.


Positions

A number of CAP members also belonged to the
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and had been influential in developing CAP's monetary policy, particularly its position that the
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, rather than chartered banks, should provide loans to the government, if required, to fund public spending. CAP also argued for the abrogation of the
North American Free Trade Agreement The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
, and opposed current government trade initiatives and any legislation leading to the
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,
Trans-Pacific Partnership The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, was a highly contested proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim economies, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singa ...
and what it saw as integration with the
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and
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into a
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.


Federal leaders

:''Shown by default in chronological order of leadership''


Presidents

:''Shown by default in chronological order of leadership''


Electoral results


See also

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A Program for Monetary Reform The Chicago plan was a monetary and banking reform program suggested in the wake of the Great Depression by a group of University of Chicago economists including Henry Simons, Garfield Cox, Aaron Director, Paul Douglas, Albert G. Hart, Frank ...
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Alter-globalization Alter-globalization (also known as alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter- mondialisation—and overlapping with the global justice movement) is a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and ...
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American Monetary Institute {{Notability, date=April 2022 The American Monetary Institute is a non-profit charitable trust established by Stephen Zarlenga in 1996 for the "independent study of monetary history, theory and reform." Aims The institute is dedicated to monetar ...
* Canadian Action Party candidates, 2006 Canadian federal election * Canadian Action Party candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election * Canadian Action Party candidates, 2000 Canadian federal election * Canadian Action Party candidates, 1997 Canadian federal election *
Canadian social credit movement The Canadian social credit movement is a political movement originally based on the Social Credit theory of Major C. H. Douglas. Its supporters were colloquially known as Socreds in English and créditistes in French. It gained popularity and its ...
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Chicago plan The Chicago plan was a monetary and banking reform program suggested in the wake of the Great Depression by a group of University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university i ...
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Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) is an economics-oriented publishing and education centre based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Organization COMER was co-founded by William Krehm and John Hotson in the 1980s as a think tank out ...
*
List of political parties in Canada This article lists political parties in Canada. Federal parties In contrast with the political party systems of many nations, Canadian parties at the federal level are often only loosely connected with parties at the provincial level, despite ha ...
*
National Advancement Party of Canada The National Citizens Alliance (french: Alliance National des Citoyens) is a minor federal political party in Canada. It is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, and led by perennial candidate Stephen Garvey, a proponent of far-right conspiracy ...
*
Social credit Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...
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The Chicago Plan Revisited The Chicago plan was a monetary and banking reform program suggested in the wake of the Great Depression by a group of University of Chicago economists including Henry Simons, Garfield Cox, Aaron Director, Paul Douglas, Albert G. Hart, Frank ...


References


External links


ActionParty.ca
- current website
CAP blog siteOld official website
- Web Archive
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 {{Authority control Civic nationalism Political parties established in 1997 Anti-globalization political parties 2017 disestablishments in Canada Federal political parties in Canada Left-wing nationalist parties Monetary reformers Monetary reform Nationalist parties in Canada Political parties disestablished in 2017 Protectionism Social democratic parties in Canada