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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
On what issues are the Liberals closer to the Conservatives than the NDP? I've actually been getting pretty POed at Mulcair moving the NDP towards the centre and past Justin on some issues. The Liberals are talking about decriminalizing while Mulcair has said "that would be a mistake" due to health risks. As I follow the NDP on Facebook, I'm getting more and more disenfranchised with them as they move more towards the centre. The feed is constantly touting more jobs, talking about balancing the budget. The only real lefty things they are holding onto is bull#### stuff like labelling of GMO products!
I'd be interested in knowing what these "big jumps left" would be?
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Fair enough. I often find it hard to see where the NDP actually stands anymore since the only thing Mulcair seems capable of doing is to attempt to live off the legacy of Layton's ghost. So it would be more accurate to say that my comments would represent the traditional positions of the parties on the spectrum. Regardless, my overall point remains valid as reducing Canada to a two-party system necessarily eliminates the centre as an option. We would fall into the American mode of left or right without considerations of centre, centre-left, centre-right, etc.