High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of members of the New Democratic Party Shadow Cabinet of the 40th Canadian parliament. Positions in the shadow cabinet were announced on November 17, 2008, and include all 37 members of the New Democratic Party caucus in the Canadian House of Commons except Joe Comartin who was running for election as Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons when the shadow cabinet was appointed. Unlike the youth wings of some other political parties, the NDYC acts as an autonomous caucus within the main party. It sends its own delegates to federal and provincial conventions and councils.