From the affluent neighborhoods of West Vancouver to the small fishing towns located on the East Coast of Newfoundland, political opinions and affiliations range from the left wing to the right wing. ... In the last Canadian federal election in 1993 under the leadership of Audrey McLoughlin, the NDP went from holding 43 seats in the House of Commons to only nine. ... Despite the controversy, Chretien won his party's leadership quite comfortably, and returned his party to prominence once again in 1993 by forming a federal government with a large majority in the House of Com...

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The discontent with the governments elitist attitude all led to a surge of labor militancy. ... The One Big Union had been inspired by the Russian Revolution and with a solid socialist leadership was quickly able to claim the majority of the western Canadian and Northern Ontario labor movement within its ranks. ... Growing industrial unrest particularly in western Canada provided an additional reason for the Anglo-Canadians to demand greater control of the alien community. ... Similar demands were being made in the United States, where the ferocity of the opposition made up of the elite m...

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Another early arrival who came to Canada was a young Black boy who had been captured from his homeland in Madagascar. ... To weaken the rebel forces the British commander in chief offered freedom to all Blacks who could escape from the rebels and without the Blacks, the rebels would not be able to keep their plantations running. ... "In 1815, the Nova Scotia Assembly tried to stop Blacks from coming into the Maritimes." ... Some of the papers were even circulated in the USA because Blacks down there were interested in Blacks from Canada. ... There were Blacks all over Canada. ...

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