Canadian Labour Party

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The Canadian Labour Party (CLP) was an early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a national labour party in Canada. Although it ran candidates in the federal elections of 1917, 1921, 1925, and 1926, it never succeeded in its goal of providing a national forum for the Canadian labour movement. In Alberta, the CLP and its ally, the Dominion Labour Party, ran candidates in municipal elections and had some success. In most provinces, the CLP ceased to exist after 1928 or 1929. The later Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, forerunner of the modern NDP, largely filled the role of a "Labour Party" after its founding in 1932. ^[1]