If they can hold the Tories to a minority government then they'll happily be toasting Champagne, all right. As it is, it seems that the race is to see who can possibly lose fewer seats than Trudeau would and keep the Liberals, not BQ or NDP, as the official opposition.
Though there's little chance that NDP supplants the Liberals in that p…
If they can hold the Tories to a minority government then they'll happily be toasting Champagne, all right. As it is, it seems that the race is to see who can possibly lose fewer seats than Trudeau would and keep the Liberals, not BQ or NDP, as the official opposition.
Though there's little chance that NDP supplants the Liberals in that position as seemed possible for a time in the early 2010s. Jagmeet Singh ain't Jack Layton, to put it mildly.
Singh deserves more credit than he gets for the nuts and bolts governing aspect; he extracted real, tangible commitments and policies for his confidence agreements since 2019. Layton was always quite good at this too.
As an electoral/comms piece though he’s part and parcel with the identity crisis the NDP has had since Layton’s sudden and untimely death at the moment of his grandest triumph and certainly since Mulcair got caught in Justinmania’s shadow ten years ago when he otherwise could credibly have led the NDP into government
Mulcair blew it on his own. And so did the NDP, by focusing on Quebec and nominating someone who was essentially a Liberal. A lot of their 2011 voters decided to go with the real thing.
If they can hold the Tories to a minority government then they'll happily be toasting Champagne, all right. As it is, it seems that the race is to see who can possibly lose fewer seats than Trudeau would and keep the Liberals, not BQ or NDP, as the official opposition.
Though there's little chance that NDP supplants the Liberals in that position as seemed possible for a time in the early 2010s. Jagmeet Singh ain't Jack Layton, to put it mildly.
Singh deserves more credit than he gets for the nuts and bolts governing aspect; he extracted real, tangible commitments and policies for his confidence agreements since 2019. Layton was always quite good at this too.
As an electoral/comms piece though he’s part and parcel with the identity crisis the NDP has had since Layton’s sudden and untimely death at the moment of his grandest triumph and certainly since Mulcair got caught in Justinmania’s shadow ten years ago when he otherwise could credibly have led the NDP into government
Mulcair blew it on his own. And so did the NDP, by focusing on Quebec and nominating someone who was essentially a Liberal. A lot of their 2011 voters decided to go with the real thing.
With how 2011 shook out in QC, though, I don’t know how they couldn’t have made that province the foundation of their future plans