resources to fight white collar crime, with emphasis on those who break workers' safety and wage laws, as well as pollution. It aimed to decriminalize drug usage, and instead focus on rehabilitation for addicts. It would also file suit against the oil and coal industries for their roles in climate change. The party wanted to shift to a proportional representation system of voting based on the Norwegian system. Furthermore, the party wanted to increase aboriginal representation in the legislature by adopting the New Zealand model, which includes Māori electorates, and make election day a statutory holiday to improve voter turnout. NDP and electoral reform activism Parker's departure from the party came as the Greens were perceived to be moving to the political right. He subsequently worked with the NDP in the 2001 provincial election and with the federal New Democratic Party in the 2004 federal election. Upon leaving the Green Party, Parker initially worked as a lobbyist for Mike Geoghegan. Despite leaving the Greens and joining the NDP, he remained a strong advocate for electoral reform, specifically proportional representation. A co-founder of the BC Electoral Change Coalition in 1997, he served on the board of Fair Voting BC (2000–2002, 2006–2009) and on the board of Fair Vote Canada (2005–2007). He served as a spokesperson for the "YES" campaign in the 2005 and 2009 BC referendums on voting reform. Living in Ontario in 2009, he sought the NDP nomination for the provincial by-election in the St. Paul's electoral district, but was defeated by lawyer Julian Heller. Following the defeat, Parker was encouraged by the NDP's national office and the board of the St. Paul's federal riding association to seek the party's federal nomination. However, in March 2010, after initially being approved by the party's vetting process the previous November, he was informed by head office staff that he was not only disqualified from running in St. Paul's, but barred from running for a federal NDP nomination anywhere in Canada. Party officials objected to four posts he had made to his personal Facebook page in the intervening months, particularly one in which he urged Toronto NDP supporters to back the NDP candidate for mayor in the wake of a sex scandal. In March 2018, Stuart Parker resigned from the NDP over the provincial government's subsidies to transnational fossil fuel producers. Surrey municipal politics Parker organizes reading groups through the Los Altos Institute,