Ted W. Kulp is a Canadian linguist and political activist. He has long been active in the country's republican movement and is a leading proponent of language reform in Canada and internationally. Kulp has also been a member of several political parties and attempted to start his own Forward Canada Party in the 1990s. Kulp was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 1960s. He attended the party's national student (YPC) convention in 1963 and attained notoriety for opposing a confidence motion in party leader John Diefenbaker and for calling for the abolition of the Monarchy in Canada.