The Unity Party of Canada was a "Third Way", Nationalist political party in Canada formed by David Lafferty in 2000. It is now defunct. Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ...

Originally, the party was supposed to be "post-fascist" or "post-fax", a political formula created by the party's founder, Lafferty.

At its height in 2001, the Unity Party had no more than 200 members. Although it declined to register for the 2000 federal election, it had plans to register for the 2004 elections. The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000. ... A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...

The Unity Party wanted to reform democracy and create a form of "centralized democracy" in which a strong central leadership would run the country while still being accountable to the public through referenda. After a short while, though, two strong factions appeared in the party: a progressive nationalist leftwing, and an openly neo-fascist right-wing. The two sides were unable to agree on major social policies. The party's membership was split on practically every issue: abortion, same-sex marriage, whether to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or return to a protectionist National Policy, the monarchy, religion and state. The only thing that kept the party together was a shared Canadian nationalism. Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage, marriage equality, and often just marriage by its proponents, and—usually by its opponents—homosexual marriage) refers to a marriage between two individuals of the same gender (for other forms of same-sex unions distinct from marriage, see the articles linked in that... The North American Free Trade Agreement, known usually as NAFTA, links Canada, the United States, and Mexico in a free trade sphere. ... Protectionism is the economic policy of promoting favored domestic industries through the use of high tariffs and other regulations to discourage imports. ... The National Policy was a Canadian economic program introduced by John A. Macdonalds Conservative Party in 1879 after it returned to power. ...

By 2002, most of the core members had lost interest. Many drifted to other nationalist and nationalistic parties on the left and right, including the New Democratic Party, the Canadian Action Party, the Christian Heritage Party, and others. By early 2003, the website had shut down, the members where no longer in contact, and the party became defunct. The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a social democratic political party in Canada. ... The Canadian Action Party (CAP) is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. ... There are two groups that have used the name the Christian Heritage Party. Christian Heritage Party of Canada Christian Heritage New Zealand (formerly the Christian Heritage Party) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

About a year later, the website and the party were briefly relaunched with a dozen out of the more than 100 original members taking part, but after a few months the party was officially dissolved, and the members drifted onto other things. A few of the party's leading members went onto form the Canadian Patriot Party, a more liberal successor which has declined to officially register with Elections Canada. Elections Canada is the non-partisan agency of the Government of Canada responsible for the conduct of federal elections and referendums. ...

The Unity Party was not related to the fascist Parti national social chrétien/National Unity Party of Adrien Arcand of the 1930s and 40s. The Parti national social chrétien was a Canadian political party formed by Adrien Arcand in February 1934. ... Adrien Arcand in 1933. ...

See also: List of Canadian political parties A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. ...