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Before beginning his teaching career, Morton served as an advisor to [[Tommy Douglas]] of the [[New Democratic Party of Canada|New Democratic Party]]. From 1964 to 1966, he served as assistant secretary of the [[Ontario New Democratic Party]]. After the success of the famous 1964 NDP [[Riverdale, Toronto##Provincial politics|Riverdale by-election]], Morton wrote and published ''The Riverdale Story'', which detailed how the party's organizing and canvassing changed the way campaigns in Canada are run. In the 1970s he worked with [[David Lewis (politician)|David Lewis]], [[Stephen Lewis]], and other party leaders to oppose [[The Waffle]], a left-wing faction within the NDP.<ref name="Unity">
{{Cite news|date=1971-04-21|title=NDP 'Unity' Group Is Out to Crush Party's Waffler|page=10|newspaper=The Toronto Star}}</ref> In the 1980s he informally advised [[Brian Mulroney]] of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservatives]].{{cn|date=March 2021}}
Morton was the author of over thirty-five books on Canada, including the popular ''A Short History of Canada''. In 1994 he won the [[C.P. Stacey Prize]] for his history of Canadian soldiers during the [[First world war|First World War]], ''When Your Number's Up''. He wrote prolifically about the First World War, considering it of great importance in Canadian history. He once wrote: "For Canadians, [[Vimy Ridge]] was a nation building experience. For some, then and later, it symbolized the fact that the Great War was also Canada's war of independence".<ref>Desmond Morton, ''A Military History of Canada: From Champlain to Kosovo'', Canada, McClelland and Stewart, 1999 (1985), p.145.</ref>
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