Comments on: End of the NDP? http://informedvote.ca/2009/01/17/end-of-p/ Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:27:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dogears http://informedvote.ca/2009/01/17/end-of-p/comment-page-1/#comment-3354 Dogears Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:32:21 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=512#comment-3354 Jayson, Fact: The N.D.P. are miles away from ever forming th egovernment of Canada. The existence of the N.D.P. played a major role in the creation of a Conservative minortiy government, (Layton helped bring down Martin). The policies of the Conservative party are dramatically different from the N.D.P. and yet the split of the left of center vote help to perpetuate the problem of right wing government. It is not likely that the N.D.P. will go away, but history will repeat itself and the N.D.P. are destined to return to levels of support that make it a virtual non-entity in the house. Canadian punish the Liberals every now and then and put the Cons. in power. When this happens the N.D.P. enjoy a surge from those on the left who wish to punish the Libs., however, (and luckily) the Cons. eventually show their true colours and Canadians are driven back to the Libs. I have never understood why the N.D.P. doesn't understand that they and their members could be a powerful force within the Lib party which would help to keep it leaning left while also slowly pushing through elements of the N.D.P. policy book. Jayson,

Fact: The N.D.P. are miles away from ever forming th egovernment of Canada. The existence of the N.D.P. played a major role in the creation of a Conservative minortiy government, (Layton helped bring down Martin). The policies of the Conservative party are dramatically different from the N.D.P. and yet the split of the left of center vote help to perpetuate the problem of right wing government. It is not likely that the N.D.P. will go away, but history will repeat itself and the N.D.P. are destined to return to levels of support that make it a virtual non-entity in the house.
Canadian punish the Liberals every now and then and put the Cons. in power. When this happens the N.D.P. enjoy a surge from those on the left who wish to punish the Libs., however, (and luckily) the Cons. eventually show their true colours and Canadians are driven back to the Libs.
I have never understood why the N.D.P. doesn’t understand that they and their members could be a powerful force within the Lib party which would help to keep it leaning left while also slowly pushing through elements of the N.D.P. policy book.

]]> By: Jason http://informedvote.ca/2009/01/17/end-of-p/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Jason Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:35:00 +0000 http://informedvote.ca/?p=512#comment-242 While your criticisms of the NDP's performance while in power are valid and fair, the suggestion that the NDP is near its end is ludicrous. The NDP earned more donations and has more donors than the Liberals in the prior election. There is a great divide between Liberal party members, that the new leadership must fix. To say that the NDP are on the way out is incorrect and has no substantive evidence backing it. While your criticisms of the NDP’s performance while in power are valid and fair, the suggestion that the NDP is near its end is ludicrous. The NDP earned more donations and has more donors than the Liberals in the prior election. There is a great divide between Liberal party members, that the new leadership must fix. To say that the NDP are on the way out is incorrect and has no substantive evidence backing it.

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