To make a united from of the Canadian left. Canada like the UK and unlike Australia and New Zealand retains their First Past The Post electoral system at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The big test is will the Liberal Party fall into 3rd party status as it did in 2011 or just a weak second?
The latter. Why would they want to do anything except keep the NDP label?
To make a united from of the Canadian left. Canada like the UK and unlike Australia and New Zealand retains their First Past The Post electoral system at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The big test is will the Liberal Party fall into 3rd party status as it did in 2011 or just a weak second?
Did you mean "united front"?
yes I do.
Don't they still have the option to agree on an electoral alliance with the Liberals if that makes political sense?
Technically yes. The question is who would be the senior partner though?
Or whether the Liberals would agree to that. But the same thing would effectively be true for a merger.