It was clear the CCF was stalled everywhere except in the province of Saskatchewan. Something had to change for social democrats in BC and across Canada. In 1958, the Canadian Labour Congress representing Canada’s unions, invited the CCF to join with them to found a new party. For three years, across the country, the idea was debated, policy discussions were held, and New Party clubs were formed. In July, 1961, delegates from the unions, the CCF, and New Party clubs met in Ottawa to found a new party: the New Democratic Party. The aim was to build a movement more broadly-based than the CCF, reaching out to ordinary Canadians and electing governments that would put people first, rather than the powerful and privileged. To be clear, this was not a name change for CCF, it was a new partnership and a new party built on 30 years of work by thousands of CCFers.
A new (democratic) party is founded
