If an election were held today, 48% of committed voters would vote Liberal, 32% Conservative, 9% NDP, 6% Bloc Québécois, 3% Green, 1% People’s Party, and 1% another party.
If an election were held today, 48% of committed voters would vote Liberal, 32% Conservative, 9% NDP, 6% Bloc Québécois, 3% Green, 1% People’s Party, and 1% another party.
You deleted your other comment, so I’ll just put this here instead.
Avi has run. Twice. In two different ridings. He came in third in both elections. Sure, he wasn’t the NDP leader at the time, but name recognition should have worked in his favour. Ask yourself why it didn’t.
No, canadians punished Singh and as they should have. He was a Rolex wearing pretend progressive. You can ignore that he tanked the party all you want but that’s fine. Also, true progressive and pro worker messages will always take more effort and time as they get attacked on all sides by monied voices. Layton lost a lot of elections before he started winning some.
The difference between Layton and Lewis is I’d have voted for Layton, and did. And also Layton advocated for things that would have actually benefited me. I’m not benifitting from a public grocery store, or a unionized job in the trades, just to pick two.
I voted for Layton too and met him and Olivia multiple times in the early days. He was amazing. But check his record during the Dion days. He was more of a centrist than you remember perhaps. He was on the frontlines with unions but voted to make deals with neoliberals. He was winning us over because he was the first genuine attempt at a progressive alternative. But in his time leading the party he did very little to push worker friendly deals. I get it why. That wasnt his job. But its Lewis’.
So far I’ve heard nothing out of Lewis that’s friendly to this worker. Until that changes, my vote doesn’t.
Huh???
I met him in 2007 when he was repping the Take, which is a film explicitly highlighting worker ownership and inspired me to co-found a workers cooperative. He has authored dozens of works promoting workers rights since them. And now he has a platform dedicated to protecting workers in a digital economy, which is absolutely a good thing, and has worked for decades to expand union rights.
No NDP leader (or any political leader) has as long a pro worker track sheet as Lewis and he has made it central to his campaign.
Makes me wonder where you are coming from. Were you unaware of the above perhaps?
So he’s pro-union, not pro-worker. Great if you’re in a union, but fuck the rest of us.
Was that before, during or after his time as a journalist with CBC? We already have one of those. He’s the AI minister.
The Take wasnt about unions. It was about workers cooperatives, which he also advocates for. Not sure you properly read my post or maybe you dont know what workers cooperatives are. Creating more space for alternatives to anti-worker corporations is a good thing.
He was a CBC journalist about 20 years ago. Hes also been a professor and community activist for longer. Not an impressive critique.
Edit: just yesterday the NDP pushed forward a right to strike bill which the liberals and conservatives voted against. This is explicitly pro worker as its through general assembly and strikes we won most of our labour rights.
The NDP pushed through a bill to remove section 107, which was defeated. The SCC established the constitutional right to strike in 2015. Not only does section 107 not take that away, but the language the government has been using since 2024 has been in that legislation since the 80’s. That bill was theater, not pro-anything. The solution is amend section 107 to make it clear it can only be enforced through back-to-work legislation.
NDP is a party of ideological morons. They stopped caring about workers a while back.
The caucus just elected the most pro worker leader since its founding.
After they elected performative, useless, moronic leaders who destroyed the party for anyone who isn’t a partisan ideologue.
Okay but thats not who they just elected. You dont seen to be discussing in good faith to be honest.
I wish they manage to build momentum by the next general election, but it seems unlikely. NDP has successfully managed to nuter themselves to appease a few.
It’ll be a while before they grow enough balls for a blue collar worker to take them seriously again.
Lewis is a brand new leader. What drives you to disparage so unnecessarily. Ive been following this party since BEFORE layton. Lewis is the first to really focus on these topics. Which makes me question your motives.
No ulterior motives. I’d’ve been very happy if Jack became our PM and did shave that mustache as he promised.
I just don’t trust that party after what they turned into after him.
I even supported Avi’s bid for leadership from the sidelines after realizing Rob Ashton is too “white” and “cis” for psychotic NDP partisans to become the leader.
I wish them well, but I don’t see NDP forming the government next election.