Leading intellectuals, representatives of farm and labour workers and other advocates for a more progressive Canada were in Regina on this date in 1933. It was a year after many of the same men and women had founded the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), which was, of course, the legacy party of today’s NDP. This time, they held the first-ever convention that brought rank and file party members together as one. Most importantly, the CCF officially issued the famed Regina Manifesto which, as it main authors (and intellectuals) F.R. Scott of Quebec and Frank Underhill of Toronto proclaimed, “When private profit is the main stimulus to economic effort, our society oscillates between periods of feverish prosperity in which the main benefits go to speculators and profiteers, and of catastrophic depression, in which the common man’s normal state of insecurity and hardship is accentuated. We believe that these evils can be removed only in a planned and socialized economy in which our natural resources and principal means of production and distribution are owned, controlled and operated by the people.”