King of Kensington
Junior Chimp
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« on: September 28, 2016, 01:16:42 PM » |
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NDP will likely move left again after Mulcair. The most sensible place for them at this point is to be a sort of "Bernie Sanders party" or something like where they were under Ed Broadbent in the 80s.
The NDP did move far enough to the right so tactically the Liberals tried to sound more "progressive" in the 2015 election. They used a very similar strategy to the Liberals in Ontario - hard to believe the NDP fell for the same trick
I'd say over the last two decades, the Liberals have either stayed more or less the same place or even moved a little left, but the NDP is well to the right of where it was then. So the difference between the two parties is less. The Conservatives since the Alliance/PC merger are well to the right of the old PCs as well, so the difference between the Liberals and Conservatives is greater than in the past, more because of the Conservative shift rightward.
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