The race to replace former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, meanwhile, kicked off this week.

Singh stepped down from the party’s leadership on election night, after he lost his own seat and the number of MPs elected to the House of Commons was slashed to seven.

One of the party’s leadership race rules is drawing criticism: namely that of the 500 member signatures required on a potential candidate’s nomination form, at least half must be from members who do not identify as a cisgender man.

On a recent episode of The Paikin Podcast, hosted by Canadian journalist Steve Paikin, Davies said that in his view, the NDP during the last election veered “too much from (its) class-based analysis to identity politics.” He said the party needs to find the “right balance” of those things.