The Natural Law Party of Canada (NLPC) was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation.
The magician Doug Henning was Senior Vice President of NLPC, and ran as the party's candidate for the former Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1993 federal election, finishing sixth out of ten candidates. The party was led by Dr. Neil Paterson.
The NLPC supported federal funding for further research in the technique of yogic flying, a part of the TM-Sidhi program, as a tool for achieving world peace. The NLPC platform maintained that once it took over the government, Canada’s crime, unemployment, and deficit would disappear. Naomi Rankin, the leader of the Communist Party of Alberta, called the NLP "crackpot". One of its slogans was "If you favor Natural Law, Natural Law will favor you."
The NLPC was primarily active in the provinces of Ontario (Natural Law Party of Ontario), Quebec (Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec) and British Columbia. The provincial wings had candidates and are now defunct.
The party was de-registered by Elections Canada, the Canadian government's election agency, on January 23, 2003.
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