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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Idealistically, the Liberals would work with either side on a case by case basis. That, however, ignores the obviously increasing partisanship we've endured over the last couple decades.
One way I could look at that is that the Liberals would find it easier to work with the NDP because they aren't actually a threat. The NDP pretty much just exist for the most part. Other than the lows of the 90s and the high of 2011, they are good for 15-20% of the vote and will pretty much never actually challenge for control of government. If the Liberals worked with the Conservatives quite a bit, Trudeau runs the risk of having people ask 'why not just vote Conservative next time?'.
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I can't see the main rivals working with each other either. Trudeau has the risk you ID. Scheer (or whoever) would alienate his base. Frankly, I think the Liberals work with the Bloc a bit because those guys are transactionally based - they do what is good for them and that's it. They might work with the NDP but only to a point and not for major concessions. The NDP are weakened, despite the speech by Singh last night (in fact all of those speeches were way too self-congratulatory).