Pirate Party of Canada

Pirate Party of Canada Parti Pirate du Canada
Party leader	Travis McCrea
Deputy Chairman	James Phillips
founding	June 12, 2009
resolution	November 30, 2017
Headquarters	Laval
Colours)	purple
Number of members	2000 (as of November 2010)
International connections	Pirate Parties International
Website	www.pirateparty.ca

The Pirate Party of Canada ( French Parti Pirate du Canada ), abbreviated PPCA, was a political party in Canada . The PPCA was founded in June 2009 as part of the international movement of pirate parties . The main focus of the party is a copyright reform and open government . The party was officially registered on April 12, 2010. On November 29, 2010, she stood for the first time in the by-elections to the Canadian House of Commons and thus received official party status. On November 30, 2017, it was deregistered again.

elections

The PPCA first appeared with a candidate in the by-election to the Canadian House of Commons in the constituency of Winnipeg North. Their candidate Jeff Coleman received 0.6% of the vote and was only slightly below the result of the green candidate. In the regular general election on May 2, 2011 , the PPCA ran in 10 constituencies and achieved results of 0.33% to 1.08%, an average of 0.67%.

further activities

CaPT

Since September 27, 2009 the PPCA has been running a Bit torrent tracker. On the CaPT or Captain called tracker only music is distributed under a Creative Commons license. The PPCA is promoting its idea of ​​spreading online media.

Pirate Party Radio

Pirate Party Radio is the official radio broadcast of the PPCA, the Pirate Party UK and the United States Pirate Party . The show is broadcast live every Thursday.

Web links

Commons : Pirate Party of Canada  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leadership ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PPCA. 
2. ^ Winnipeg North first Canadian battleground for Pirate Party
3. ↑ Pirate Party takes place outside Europe for the first time
4. ^ "Elections Canada - Deregistration of the Pirate Party of Canada. Retrieved May 8, 2019 . 
5. ↑ CaPT ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Pirate Party Radio