The NDP helped build Canada’s welfare state. Now, under pressure from Donald Trump’s tariffs and a shifting political terrain, the party risks electoral annihilation as voters split between technocratic centrism and right-wing populism.
The NDP helped build Canada’s welfare state. Now, under pressure from Donald Trump’s tariffs and a shifting political terrain, the party risks electoral annihilation as voters split between technocratic centrism and right-wing populism.
With all due respect to NDP voters, in December the Liberals were set to lose 100 seats and the NDP was polling to gain zero of them.
It isn’t Trump’s fault that the NDP support is falling, it’s the NDP leadership’s fault for not changing anything when the writing has been on the wall since at least 2023, and in my opinion as far back as the 2021 election.
The NDP needed to make changes then, and now they’re going to get crushed because nobody in the driver’s seat acknowledged that. They needed a clearer message, they needed better leadership, and they needed to prove that an NDP plan could be affordable and promote economic growth, and frankly I still am not convinced wealth taxes would.
I spent the last twenty years strictly voting NDP and I agree. This is the first time I won’t be voting NDP federally, just two months after my first time not voting NDP provincially. They really need to up their game. I’m just grateful my riding is split between NDP and Liberal so I don’t have to worry about a blue win either way.
I’m in a tight blue/red riding so I’m forced to vote strategically. Normally I’d vote NDP but I’m also extremely disappointed in Singh as leader.
Same here. I’ll be writing them to let them know that they lost my vote not from strategic voting but from a poorly explained and promoted platform. I want them to succeed but they need a leadership change and the resolve to reach toward more aggressively progressive goals.