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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
So has the Green Party, have they not? The Green Party has been around since 1983 and I think even now having won a seat that they're still largely fringe.
The NDP was pretty well that annoying little brother who wouldn't shut up in the back seat of during car rides. Elections were really a battle between the PC (now Conservatives) and the Liberals. The NDP? They served as little more than a mechanism to try and avoid majority governments.
In the past two elections, that changed substantially, and I will say that the NDP would be nowhere without Layton's influence, but he certainly had some help thanks to Dion and Ignatieff being complete doorknobs.
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However, the Green Party has not had official party status from 1983 on. They might have one seat in Parliament now, but I don't consider them comparable to the NDP party in the least.