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Originally Posted by Firebot
Green Party, PPC, Bloc are also a choice.
None are viable to form a government as they currently are but they certainly are a choice, so your argument is nonsensical. The NDP in its current state is as viable as the others mentioned. And considering the NDP is in a coalition with the Liberals, and will ho and hum about the budget for a bit and proceed to support it after claiming victory on a half baked compromise, they really are just Liberals at this point and do not have much separating them as a party (hence why they aren't gaining support). Their flailing around on carbon tax certainly is not helping them, and likely hurting their ideological base.
The federal NDP is not a viable alternative party right now and are not taking measures to become one. It's the 'viable' part that is in contention, not that they are a choice.
That's the problem when you choose to join a coalition in the shadows of the main party for short term gain rather than attempt to stand out to the population as an alternative. In a year they be will fully back to irrelevance and forced to redefine themselves.
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Well, no, they aren’t the Liberals, they’re the NDP. You might have trouble distinguishing them and you might struggle to see them as more viable than, say, the PPC party, but they objectively are and any suggestion otherwise is just… what did you call it? Right, nonsensical.