New Democratic Party candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election
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The New Democratic Party of Canada ran a full slate of candidates in the 1993 federal election, and won nine seats out of 295. This brought the NDP below official party status in the House of Commons of Canada for the first, and, to date, only time in its history.
Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.
Quebec
Jonquière: Karl Bélanger
Karl Bélanger (born 1975) is the Senior press secretary for Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton. He used to be the spokesman for former NDP Leader Alexa McDonough and has worked for the party since the 1997 federal election. Bélanger is a native of Quebec City, and noted for his fondness for team sports.
He was a candidate in the 1993 federal election in the riding of Jonquière, and in the 1996 federal by-election in Lac-Saint-Jean. He was President of the New Democratic Youth of Québec from 1994 to 1998 and Vice-President of the New Democratic Youth of Canada from 1995 to 1997.
As a party spokesperson, he appears regularly on CPAC's political panels and on CTV's Mike Duffy Live, and is a regular columnist in The Hill Times. He is also a regular guest on radio stations such as CJAD, CFRA and the New 940 Montreal.
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