Canadians do have a choice: they have the NDP
Getting things done to help Canadians in their struggle to make ends meet is what Parliament should be about. Canadians will evaluate their candidates on that basis. And it’s not just between the Liberals and the Conservatives. The choice will include the NDP.
NDP ‘a loser’ in recent byelections, should be ‘very worried’ about hemorrhaging support to Liberals, say political players
Recent byelection results should make the NDP rethink their supply-and-confidence deal with the government, says Innovative Research president Greg Lyle.
Supply-and-confidence deal keeps Canadian families first, and Jagmeet Singh front and centre
Tory strategists claim to know what’s best, pushing the NDP to end its deal with the governing Liberals. But this deal elevates Singh and his party in the eyes of prospective voters, write Melissa Bruno and Mélanie Richer.
Byelection results show Tories still have work to do to win general election, says pollster Lyle
Former Tory staffer Yaroslav Baran said byelections in four safe seats were a poor test of how voters are responding to current issues. But former NDP staffer Cam Holmstrom said the two Manitoba ridings were a perfect ‘microcosm’ of the challenge facing the Tories.
Alberta election shows wooing reluctant Tory voters still a high bar for Singh, says pollster Coletto
The Alberta NDP left too much room for the United Conservative Party leader to define herself, a mistake the federal NDP and Liberal leaders can’t make with Conservative Pierre Poilievre, says former NDP comms director Mélanie Richer.
To be more successful, the NDP can reclaim its heritage of left-wing populism
A way forward for the NDP is not so much in countering the Liberals as it is about capturing the main anti-establishment thrust from the Conservatives.
Why the NDP is sticking with the deal
The NDP sits in the best position it can realistically hope for: holding the balance of power in a Parliament with a minority Liberal government that prefers being tugged to the left rather than the right.
Minority Parliaments can work
There was one positive: two parties worked together on the federal budget, which is refreshing in these toxic political times.
Government must start ‘walking their talk’ on affordability to maximize political impact of budget roll-out, says pollster
Some ‘very real wins’ for the NDP set-up an ‘important class-based message’ it can deliver to working class voters, says strategist.
New Democrats ‘break the logjam’ on Telford’s testimony, as the Liberals choose ‘lesser of two evils,’ say strategists
As long as the Liberals can manage Katie Telford’s coming testimony effectively, the government has a path to the end of the spring session, and has a rationale to not call an election until October, says political scientist Lori Turnbull.
