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Amy Hamm: How NDP's equity cards turned the convention into a circus
Not content with only gender equity cards, delegates developed a free range system for all 'equity seeking groups'
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Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) held a convention and elected their new leader, Avi Lewis, over three days last weekend. The convention made the NDP famous — perhaps “infamous” is more like it — and drew the attention of pundits from across the world.
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All of this happened at a time when the party is in its death throes: it has lost its official status in Canada’s House of Commons, and has a measly six elected members of Parliament.
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How did the NDP achieve international fame so suddenly? In short: equity cards and the party’s self-devouring enthusiasm for the politics of oppression.
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The party’s equity-card system initially allowed for conference delegates who self-identified as anything other than a........