File 2023-006/001(04) - Statements to the Crisis in the NDP

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File consists of correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, statements, meeting minutes and reports relating to the split between the New Democratic Party and the Waffle Movement. File includes issue number 12 of The Sarnia Democrat, a local NDP newspaper where Mel Watkins of the Waffle movement discusses the lack of action from Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s Liberal party in halting foreign ownership of Canadian companies. File also includes a proposal for associate membership, part of the ‘affiliation’ proposal put forward by the Waffle, which was rejected by the administration committee of the ONDP, who put forward a recommendation for the Waffle to disband or be expelled from the party, which was in turn rejected by the Ottawa and Toronto NDP riding associations. File also includes Prepas’ notes on both the Waffle and ONDP up to June 21, summarizing the position of the Waffle as a movement and the crisis that began with the Hamilton Mountain Resolution at a prior ONDP meeting. Prepas also identifies groups and unions affiliated with the NDP that are ‘pro-purge’ or ‘pro-Waffle.’ It also includes the ONDP’s ‘Brief on the problems of the Definition of Membership in the Constitution of the NDP and Related Issues’ and ‘Report to Provincial Executive,’ which show differing views between the two sides of ONDP, one believed that Wafflers should have a place in the party and the other sought its dissolution.