Look at the polls. Mark Carney gained almost entirely from the NDP to tie the conservatives. The Conservatives did not lose a vote.
If I was the NDP, that would piss me off. But they need to ask themselves, who do they want to win the election. It is very clearly not going to them. And, if they dunk on Mark Carney too much, it may not be him either.
Would the NDP prefer Mark Carney or Pollivere? They need to decide because, if the libs and NDP are stuck in a zero sum game, it may actually be the NDP that gets to decide the next election. The conservative vote appears locked in. The only question is how the everybody else is going to vote.
The NDP stands zero chance of winning. The best they can do is official opposition, and even that is asking for a miracle. Frankly speaking, they should be asking themselves what’s the best realistic position the party can manage this election, and that’s to whittle away votes from the Cons.
As long as the Conservatives have a strong voter base, the only thing the NDP can do is canabolize liberal votes, which is a lose-lose proposition when the liberals don’t even have a majority. Even in the best case of this scenario, they’re just splitting the votes and handing the Conservatives the win.
Instead of trying to nab a small number of easy votes, go they need to go for the harder but far bigger votes. Convince Canadians that voting for the Cons goes directly against their own interests.
I’m tired of Jagmeet, time for new NDP leadership.
A sign of a good leader is to know when to step off the stage. Singh continues to show us that he is not that.
A Charlie Angus/Mark Carney coalition government would go so hard.
Carney brings strong economic policy, and Angus brings deep knowledge of Ontario/Canadian resource communities would be epic.
Shame Angus is retiring (he definitely deserves it though, been serving for what 20 years?), liked his platform during last leadership election. I knew he was in a punk/new wave band with his friend Andrew Cash, didn’t realise Cash was also an NDP MP.
That would be a good idea.
I’d really rather Singh stop attacking and start getting his house in order.
I’m so tired of “the other guy is terrible pick me” crab bucket politics.
Carney is representing fresh ideas and he’s bringing a deep background of skills perfect for our current crisis. Right now Canadians are thinking of three things: affordability, losing their jobs, and not being annexed.
I hope the NDP is able to ramp up a campaign around those issues and show how we can afford to weather the storm.
I agree with your opinion about politicians attacking the other parties.
But I don’t se how Carney’s ideas are fresh. He wants to cut funding to government programs and services, cut taxes and invest.
You know that that sounds like? Less tax income for the government to spend. A decrease in social services like health and education, and subsidies to private interests.
Here’s what he wants to invest in:
- millions of new homes to address the housing crisis,
- a major expansion in both conventional and clean energy systems to reduce our dependence on the United States and drive competitiveness in Canadian manufacturing,
- port, rail and infrastructure for the new trade corridors with major new trade partners, and
- defence equipment and dual-use defence infrastructure that is made in Canada to make our country more secure and prosperous.
All of which should be nationalized in my opinion. Social housing for the most vulnerable who can’t afford any home or even rent almost anywhere and are either living in poverty or camping in tents.
Energy should be nationalized again like it used to be before Mulroney. Like Québec did with Hydro Québec.
Same with rail and port infrastructure. (I think CN is a crown corporation, but not sure about ports…)
Defence equipment is the only exception.
But why cut taxes??? We need to tax Canada’s billionaires. There’s plenty of them. We need to tax the richest people in this country who have gotten richer over the past 10 years to a ridiculous point. They’re the same people that made the middle class poorer with their manufactured inflation.
Everything listed is exactly what I want for Canada – I would add that we’re massively underinvested in turning Canadian research into technology products, and that is our biggest laggard behind the US. I’m a strong believer that the more we invest here the more opportunities that creates, and that creates more tax revenue and ability to fund more services.
I do agree with you though. I’m not looking for tax or major service cuts. I pay a higher marginal tax rate, but I don’t really care that much as long as living in Canada is as good as it should be.
I would like to see our tax system revisited, especially for people earning more than $750k per year. With the current US climate and tensions this might be a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to make major reforms with minimal risk to our economy (agains the argument “the rich will all just leave”).
The US is in a race to the bottom for corporate welfare and tax cuts, there’s no point in competing because they’re willing to throw their people into the meat grinder for it. We have stability, an educated population, and a massive wave of national pride that we can leverage to attract and grow companies/talent/careers here at home. The nets open for us to take some shots at real change.
Well then let’s agree to… uhh… agree?
100%
Just shut up you irrelevant nobody.
Jagmeet Singh’s only hope for power is if Mark gets a minority and Jagmeet props him up.
FINE by me!!
A working minority government IS democracy.
A majority government is no different than the US electing A dictator.
Dictators are ‘decisive’, yes. But a minority MUST find a consensus between at least 2/3 of the parties to move forward.
Hmmm…. Now, which one sounds like democracy?
I ask you.
There’s a couple things wrong with what you said there.
A majority government is a majority government and not a dictatorship.
There are more then three parties.
Might as well be when the other parties have to power to change anything.
In Québec the CAQ is incredibly unpopular and are making incredibly unpopular decisions. But no one can stop them short of a general strike.
It is literally not a dictatorship even if you don’t like them.
No of course not. At least we can vote them out eventually.
“One of the jobs of the NDP is to expose what’s going on there, and underscore that he’s pretty traditional, middle of the road, and small-c conservative in some ways,” Savage told the Star. “That’s not what we need in this moment.”
I don’t find that hard to believe at all. Same Liberal shit.
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