National Party of Canada
The National Party was a short lived Canadian political party that contested the 1993 Canadian election.
Founded and led by Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig, the National Party was created in 1991 to oppose the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement and seemingly growing continentalis. The party ran in the 1993 election on an economic nationalist, anti-free trade program. Despite the election being a successful one for other new parties such as the Bloc Quebecois and the Reform Party it failed to elect any members.
Duirng the election the party sued the CBC to have Hurtig participate in the leadership debates, but was unsuccessful.
The demise of the National Party occurred when Hurting and the party's chief financial backer, Bill Loewen, got into an argument about the direction the party was taking and Loewen withdrew his funding. The party disbanded in 1994. A number of its members went on to join the Canadian Action Party when it was founded in 1997.
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Canadian federal election results since 1867 | Canadian political parties | List of Canadian federal elections | List of Canadian general elections | List of political parties in Canada | Lists of Canadian general elections | National Party | Nationalist Party
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