Eh, are the NDP really going to be seen as causing the issues the Liberals face? I don't think so. Their wagon is not inextricably hitched to the Liberals. And the overlap between NDP voters and CPC voters is pretty slim, so it's not as though the NDP will bleed off lots of swing voters. The NDP's biggest problem—as it usually is—is that they're looked upon as ineffectual pie-in-the-sky policymakers whom you couldn't trust to actually run government. That, and Jagmeet Singh is seen as a nice guy but an effete goof. The NDP's biggest threat in the next election, whenever that may be, is disaffected loyal voters just stay home altogether. As such they'll stand pat for the foreseeable future.
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