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Originally Posted by timun
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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The NDP is losing support and not gaining them from disenfranchised Liberal voters according to 338Canada.
There is opportunity for the NDP to step up and fill in the opposition (like Layton in 2011) but they are currently choosing to stay in the Liberals shadow for some unexplainable reason.
When they had no power to speak of, the NDP would put up these motions for affordable housing multiple times to score political points.
https://www.ndp.ca/news/liberals-vot...d-homelessness
https://www.ndp.ca/news/liberals-vot...housing-crisis
https://www.ndp.ca/news/liberals-vot...rdable-housing
The NDP could have used the current coalition to bring forth a new motion for affordable housing, yet consciously chooses not to. Instead Singh uses Twitter to virtue signal against corporate greed while voting for Liberal motions that negatively impact Canadians.