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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
To an extent it keeps popping up from the backroom of either a direct merger, or a voting agreement where the NDP and Liberal's and Greens agree not to compete in an election
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There's lots of talk about this idea, but it's more of a one election coalition idea. Where the three parties would unite, pool resources, push through election reform to get ride of FPTP and then go back to their usual tribes. I know May is strongly behind this and one of the non-JT liberal candidates has suggested the same idea.
I get the feeling that this is a gift to the Liberals if anything (and by proxy a gift to Harper and the Conservatives). It weakens the overall appeal of the NDP as a left of center alternative to the Liberals. Something like this is going to frighten anyone who was leaning towards the NDP with strong unity beliefs. The Liberals will be able to play the we're the only party that will keep the country together card.
If anything, I really have to question Muclair as leader of the NDP, they had a real opportunity to make up some ground between now and 2015, but ideas like this aren't going to fly for the average Canadian.