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Response to Hill Times column on how NDP are no longer the party of Tommy Douglas

By July 5, 2011March 18th, 2020No Comments

July 5, 2011 – A reader of my recent column in The Hill Times on the how the NDP are no longer the party of Tommy Douglas wrote to me and mentioned the following:

Thanks for the Tommy Douglas piece that appeared in the Winnipeg Free press recently. One of my father’s favourite TD quotes was the title of one of his sermons before he entered politics, which was something like, “God looks after every little bird, but he does not throw food in the nest”.