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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
It's incredible who little you know about the things you advocate for and especially that you don't know the basics of the party you support.
From the NDP constitution (so much for being the party of the people as you put it):
All three main parties plus the Bloc restrict membership to a single party.
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What is really incredible is how little this 'gotcha' moment matters. These aren't the basics, these are the fine print and inside the fine print they have other words about waiving Article III if the executive decides to. The position of the NDP on membership rules hardly matters when you consider the other two parties.
A members of the provincial NDP were auto-enrolled into the Federal NDP. Do you think they checked to see if those people were in another party beforehand? No.
Besides, the answer to following the rules is simple. You do not need to be an active member of multiple parties at the same time. Leadership races are the most important time and they hardly ever overlap. If you are passionate about a specific party's policies and the nuts and bolts of how that party works then maintaining an ongoing membership allows you to try and have your voice heard. Otherwise you can let your membership go when nothing is happening (like right now with the LPC).
Most importantly though, I would say that one should always join the parties in good faith. Go in to learn and participate and try to make the party better, because having multiple strong parties makes Canada better. The people who wanted to sabotage the Liberals are the reason these rules are in place.
It is weird that you focused on this so hard, but I am guessing you saw free argument points and not that you actually care about being able to join other parties.
