Author: Stephen Taylor

I received both a telephone call and an email from two Quebec-based journalists who followed my reporting of the NDP draft policy document on foreign policy. Both journalists independently told me that the NDP is keeping the rest of their draft policy under wraps until the weekend.

Unfortunately for the Dippers, I’ve got what the NDP is so eager to keep secret and away from media scrutiny; I’ve got the other sections of the NDP draft policy document.

Here are the rest of the policy documents that I have. If you write about them in an newspaper article, reference them in a television report, or discuss them in a blog post, I ask that you cite this blog as the source.

NDP Resolutions part 2
NDP Resolutions part 3
NDP Resolutions part 4
NDP Resolutions part 5
NDP Resolutions part 6
NDP Resolutions part 7

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A reporter from CP called me yesterday to confirm some facts for a story he was writing on my uncovering of the NDP draft policy resolutions.

He told me that the NDP actually wasn’t very mad about it and that they confirmed that they had made a mistake by putting the document online.

Jack Layton responded to the level of sanity of the resolutions at the end of the article.

Here’s a sample:

Les résolutions n’ont pas encore été rendues publiques, mais un blogueur conservateur d’Ottawa, Stephen Taylor, a mis la main sur une partie d’entre elles.

“Une amie a profité d’une erreur faite par le NPD pour les télécharger et me les envoyer”, a-t-il expliqué vendredi dans un entretien téléphonique.

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Interrogé vendredi sur le contenu de certaines résolutions radicales, Jack Layton est demeuré posé.

“Certains militants ont des idées en marge des habitudes de notre parti”, a-t-il glissé, en rappelant que seulement une infime partie des 650 résolutions serait adoptée par les 1500 délégués.

You can read the rest here.