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The Labour-Progressive Party was a Communist party in Canada.


When the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1941, it refounded itself as the Labour-Progressive Party. The LPP only ever elected one Member of Parliament under its own banner, Fred Rose, who was elected in a 1943 by-election in Montreal and sat in the House of Commons. In 1947, he was charged and convicted for spying for the Soviet Union, and was expelled from the House of Commons.


Dorise Nielson was elected to the House of Commons in 1940 from Saskatchewan as a Progressive Unity MP, but was defeated in 1945 when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate.


In Ontario, two LPP members, A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg, sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1951 and 1955 respectively. The LPP also jointly nominated several Liberal-Labour candidates with the Ontario Liberal Party.


The Manitoba party had amongst its leading members Jacob Penner who was a popular aldermen in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as well as W. A. Kardash who was a Manitoba MLA.


The party also ran candidates in Quebec general elections from 1944 to 1956 as the Parti ouvrier-progressiste.


The leader of the party was Tim Buck.


Other prominent members were Margaret Fairley and Stanley Ryerson.


See also: List of political parties in Canada


  Results from FactBites:
 
Labour-Progressive Party (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (373 words)
Only one LPP Member of Parliament (MP) was elected under that banner, Fred Rose, who was elected in a 1943 by-election in Montreal and sat in the House of Commons.
Dorise Nielson was elected to the House of Commons in the 1940 federal election from Saskatchewan as a "Progressive Unity" MP, but was defeated in the 1945 election when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate.
The LPP had a youth wing, the National Federation of Labour Youth which had formerly been known as the Young Communist League.
Labour party. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (1220 words)
The Labour party was founded in 1900 after several generations of preparatory trade union politics made possible by the Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which enfranchised urban workers.
In 1918, Labour withdrew completely from the coalition, and in 1922 it became the second largest party in the House of Commons and thus the official opposition.
The reversal of the party’s position on Britain’s entry into the European Community (now the European Union), after having earlier supported it, and a renewed call for further nationalization of industry were indications of a greater left-wing militancy within the party.
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