New Green Alliance

New Green Alliance

The New Green Alliance was founded in 1998 by environmental and social justice activists frustrated by the social democratic Saskatchewan New Democratic Party's move to the right under Roy Romanow. Unlike many Green Parties in Canada, the NGA is decidedly left wing favouring, for example, progressive taxation where the Green Party of Canada and Green Party of Ontario favour regressive consumption taxes and are essentially eco-capitalist parties. The NGA also opposes privatization of Crown corporations.

The NGA has run in Saskatchewan elections but has been unable to win any seats. In 2003 they received only 2,504 votes (about 0.5% of the vote) compared to 189,000 for the NDP. This was a decline from 1999 when they received 5% of the vote.

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