NDP faces ‘Parliament from hell’ without official party status, says former MP

OTTAWA — The NDP will return to the House of Commons without official party status at the end of May. The last time this happened was after the 1993 election — a time one former New Democrat MP remembers as “the Parliament from hell.”
Svend Robinson represented Burnaby, B.C., in the House of Commons from 1979 to 2004. He said the party’s devastating losses in 1993 led to a very challenging time in Parliament.
“I remember jumping up and down trying to get recog