Leader: This party, by design, has no leader. It takes the view that if there is a leader, there are followers. The Socialist Party of Canada favours rule by the vote of the majority (i.e., "majority rule"), effectively saying that a system with a leader is incompatible with majority rule.

Web Site: http://www.worldsocialism.org/canada

Platform: No platform mentioned on the party web site as of May 28, 2004.

Candidates: None mentioned on the party web site as of May 28, 2004.

Party Description: The Socialist Party is a companion party of the World Socialist Movement ("WSM"), which began with the founding of the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1904. In effect, the WSM (and each of its companion parties, including the Socialist Party of Canada) says it seeks a non-violent revolution to replace capitalism with socialism, which it defines as "...a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of society as a whole." Effectively, the WSM advocates a society in which everyone takes what one needs (somehow without consuming more than is produced), and produces only as much as one wants to produce: in which all labour is voluntary and unpaid, and in which the fruits of labour are free. It elaborates on that definition as follows:

"If there are wages and salaries, it is not socialism.
State ownership is not socialism.
Social programs are not socialism.

Socialism means democracy at all levels of society, including the workplace.
Socialism means a wageless, moneyless society.
Socialism means voluntary labour.
Socialism means free access to the goods produced by society."

The WSM views government, at present, as being a tool of "the capitalist class". It is strongly opposed to working with any other political parties, viewing virtually no other party as a socialist party: the WSM takes the position that history has shown other parties never to replace capitalism with socialism (as the WSM defines that term).

The WSM seeks a revolution not merely within Canada, but around the world:

"...a peaceful 'socialist nation' would be easy prey for the outside capitalist world. Just as capitalism is a world system, socialism will have to be a world system.

There are no names mentioned on the Socialist Party of Canada website. Even the mailing address for the party is a P.O. Box, not a street address. Quite possibly, the Socialist Party of Canada is little more than a web site operated by the World Socialist Movement, from out of country. Indeed, even the URL for the party web site suggests this.