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When the Communist Party of Canada was banned in 1941, it refounded itself as the Labour-Progressive Party. The LPP only ever elected one Member of Parliament under its own banner, Fred Rose, who was elected in a 1943 by-election in Montreal and sat in the House of Commons. In 1947, he was charged and convicted for spying for the Soviet Union, and was expelled from the House of Commons.
Dorise Nielson was elected to the House of Commons in 1940 from Saskatchewan as a Progressive Unity MP, but was defeated in 1945 when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate.In Ontario, two LPP members, A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg, sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1951 and 1955 respectively. The LPP also jointly nominated several Liberal-LabourThe Liberal-Labour banner has also been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections: Malcolm Lang who was elected as a Labour Party of Canada Member of Parliament in the 1926 federal election, was re-elected as "Liberal-Labour" in the north-eas candidates with the Ontario Liberal PartyThe Ontario Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the Ontario general election, 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada..
The Manitoba party had amongst its leading members Jacob PennerThere was also another Jacob Penner, leader of partisan group in Poland Jacob Penner ( August 12, 1880 August 28, 1965) was a popular socialist politician in Canada. Penner was born and raised in a Mennonite family in Russia and immigrated to Winnipeg in who was a popular aldermenAn alderman is a member of a municipal legislative body in a town or city with many jurisdictions. Members of Chicago's city council, for instance, use the title. The title is Anglo-Saxon in origin, literally meaning "elder-man", and was used by the chief in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as well as W. A. KardashWilliam A. Bill) Kardash (b. June 10, 1912 in Hafford, Saskatchewan, d. January 17, 1997) was a Communist politician and member of the Manitoba legislature. Kardash was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, having fought with the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalio who was a ManitobaManitoba ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Glorious and free Capital Winnipeg Largest City Winnipeg Area Total % fresh water 8th largest(6th lgst prov. 647 797 kmē 14. 5% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 5th 1 162 800 1. 78/kmē Ad MLA.
The party also ran candidates in Quebec general elections from 1944 to 1956 as the Parti ouvrier-progressiste.
The leader of the party was Tim Buck.
Other prominent members were Margaret Fairley and Stanley Ryerson.
See also: List of political parties in Canada