I like my local NDP candidate, who has zero chance of winning here in rural Alberta, which is just slightly higher than the liberal candidate.
I can't wait for the party to implode so hopefully we can rebuild. Singh has been an absolute disaster.
I was supporting the NDP until Singh pulled out of the agreement. The local candidate stopped by right after that and we had a conversation. Either her or the LPC candidate would be great, but my riding will probably split the non-con vote between them.
Somebody was going to benefit from the Trudeau Freeland event. Jagmeet made the judgement that it could be the NDP. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take and there was no indication that giving the Liberals the initiative to call the election in their time would do any good.
Jagmeet is bad at politics. Yes he got dental care and pahrmacare which are really good. Him and the NDP had no idea how to capitalize. JT and the liberals were desperate to stay in power and Jagmeet really did nothing to leverage that.
The first thing Jagmeet should have forced the Liberals to do was electoral reforms with ranked ballots at the very least. It would have helped both parties.
Ranked choice voting would change virtually nothing in Canada... all the progressives would just put Liberal as their second choice, and we'd end up with another supposed Liberal majority at 40%. But yes, Singh's number one priority should have been electoral reform before tearing up the agreement.
It would. Unless the Cons moved back to the centre, they would never form another govt. It would also ensure the MP actually represents a majority of voters. Not winning a seat with 30% because of vote splitting.
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I can't wait for the party to implode so hopefully we can rebuild. Singh has been an absolute disaster.
It's only play that seems to make sense (for 2024), and also demonstrating a compete inability to pivot with the changing electoral tides.