| Online Party of Canada French: Parti Enligne du Canada |
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| Founder | Michael Nicula |
| Founded | October 1, 2010 |
| Headquarters | 388 King St. W - P.O. Box 30002 Toronto ON, M5V 1K0 [1] |
| Membership | 1,000+ (May 20, 2011) |
| Ideology | Direct Democracy (List of direct democracy parties) |
| International affiliation | E2D International |
| Official colours | none/all |
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| www.onlineparty.ca | |
| Politics of Canada Political parties Elections |
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The Online Party of Canada (French: Parti en ligne du Canada, abbreviated as OPC), is a Canadian website founded in October 2010 and is in the process of formally registering as a political party with Elections Canada.[2] The party was founded by Michael Nicula of Toronto.[3][4]
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The Online Party of Canada is a non-partisan political party founded on the principles of electronic direct democracy where members vote directly on specific issues via the party website and, in return, party officials (candidates) must support the majority position on every issue, regardless of their personal position.
To ensure accountability, all OPC representatives must write up their own Promissory Letter of Resignation before being eligible to run for office. Any OPC representative who would then vote against the will of the majority could be asked to step down and resign.[5][6][7][8][9]
The Online Party of Canada does not have a set agenda. The political platform is a compilation of issues and issue positions from the OPC website, voted from members and grouped by issue category, e.g., economic, healthcare, environment, etc. The key aspect of the platform is the importance given to certain categories, however, particular issues and respective positions are determined solely based on members’ votes.[10][11]
Unlike most recognized political parties, all eligible voters in Canada, even cardholding members of other federal political parties, are allowed and strongly encouraged to become members of OPC in order to cast votes and comment on issues. In this sense, the Online Party of Canada is more like to a virtual House of Commons of Canada, representing all political stripes, rather than a traditional political party.
To ensure that each voting citizen only cast a single vote on each issue, only members' votes count toward the official party position and members are only authenticated once a signed paper form, recognized by Elections Canada, is submitted to the OPC.[12] Through this process, every OPC member and their respective electoral district as voting citizens is verifiable through the National Register of Electors (the Register)[13], similar to the voter idenfication process followed by Elections Canada during Federal Elections.
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