Natural Law Party of Canada

The Natural Law Party of Canada (NLPC) was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practised Transcendental Meditation.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Description and history

The magician Doug Henning was senior vice president of NLPC, and ran as the party's candidate for the former Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1993 federal election, finishing sixth out of ten candidates.<ref name="Gardner">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The NLPC supported federal funding for further research in the technique of yogic flying, a part of the TM-Sidhi program, as a tool for achieving world peace. The NLPC platform maintained that once it took over the government, Canada's crime, unemployment, and deficit would disappear.<ref name =Gardner/> In a 1993 news article, Naomi Rankin, the leader of the Communist Party of Alberta, referred to the NLP as "crackpot".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> One of its slogans was "If you favour Natural Law, Natural Law will favour you."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The party was de-registered by Elections Canada, the Canadian government's election agency, on January 23, 2004.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Election results

Election	# of candidates nominated	# of seats won	# of total votes	% of popular vote	% of pop vote NLP ridings
1993	231	0	85,450	0.63%	0.77%
1997	136	0	37,085	0.29%	0.61%
2000	69	0	16,573	0.13%	0.53%

Ontario branch

The Natural Law Party of Ontario was a political party in Ontario, Canada, the provincial affiliate of the Natural Law Party of Canada. It was established in 1993, and fielded candidates in the 1995 and 1999 provincial elections. Ashley Deans, who was a candidate for Trinity-Spadina in the 1997 and 2000 elections,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was the president of the party between 1993 and 2000.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref> The party leader was Ron Parker.<ref>Daniel Drolet, "Candidates pitch parties, not themselves," Ottawa Citizen, 3 June 1995, C3; Eye Weekly, Nate Hendley, "From green dreams to family values, 'fringe' politicians party on" Template:Webarchive, undated [from the 1999 Ontario provincial election]; Kathleen Hay, "Party aims to bring the life of the nation into harmony with natural law," Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, 2 June 1999, p. 5.</ref>

Quebec branch

The Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec (PLNQ, in English: Natural Law Party of Quebec) was the Quebec branch of the Natural Law Party of Canada. The party was de-registered by the Directeur général des élections du Québec, the Quebec government's election agency, in 2003. Template:Citation needed Its leader from 1994 to 2003 was Allen Faguy.Template:Citation needed

Election results

General election	# of candidates	# of elected candidates	% of popular vote
1994	102	0	0.85%
1998	35	0	0.13%

See also

• List of political parties in Canada
• Natural Law Party candidates, 1993 Canadian federal election
• Natural Law Party candidates, 1997 Canadian federal election
• Natural Law Party candidates, 2000 Canadian federal election

External links

• National Assembly historical information