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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I'm actually quite peeved with the NDP on this one. Mulcair said that the NDP's position is NOT to decriminalize, but reduce sentences. So he's positioned himself in the centre between the Conservatives and the Liberals. He's pandering to the middle and annoying his base, who are fickle enough to vote for the Liberals. Well I'm not, but I am fickle enough to vote for the Greens if they have a good candidate running.
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66% of Canadians support decrimininalization or legalisation. So if Mulcair was aiming for the middle, he missed. Decriminalization or legalisation is now the centrist policy (it captures the "middle" 33%, as well as the left 33%, assuming the law and order crowd are on the right).