Currier: Von der Relevanz zu Lächerlichkeit: Der Rückgang des NDP
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/currier-from-relevance-to-ridicule-the-decline-of-the-ndp
Currier: Von der Relevanz zu Lächerlichkeit: Der Rückgang des NDP
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/currier-from-relevance-to-ridicule-the-decline-of-the-ndp
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Yeah the party really isn’t helping itself with those weird quota rules. They’ve learned nothing from being almost totally wiped out. Seems they’re pushing for a total wipeout.
Singh kept PP out of power.
That’s all that really matters to me.
Singh did his job, and he did it well. He saved the future of our entire country.
It is incredibly satisfying watching the federal NDP rapidly becoming irrelevant. Their demise would be one of the best things that could happen in Canadian politics. All they really do is split the left vote and allow the Conservatives to win, even though most Canadians are left-leaning progressives.
If the NDP disappeared, all those votes would likely go to the Liberals, ensuring permanent federal Liberal dominance, which is almost assuredly the best possible scenario for long term stability and prosperity for our country.
The next NDP leadership race is most likely going to be the most important one in their parties history. They would do great with Rachel Notley as the leader.
The NDP have bottomed out before. I remember watching Audrey McLaughlin hold a press conference sitting at a park picnic table – yes, a picnic table – with four disinterested reporters who looked like they would rather be anywhere else during the 1993 election. They were written off for dead then, and rightfully so. But with the right leader, another NDP redemption arc is still achievable.
In every polarized election the NDP take a beating. They’ll be back. They’ll never form a government, but they will rise again.
Interesting how [CBC](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-leadership-race-rules-1.7594356) mentions all the quotas except the one about signatures from cis men not exceeding 50% as listed on the [NDP](https://www.ndp.ca/sites/default/files/2026-leadershipgoverningrules.pdf) page. Somehow a post-media slop site owned by a Manitoban Progressive Conservative reports on more than the CBC.
The NDP is often a frustrating party to support, but I doubt they will be gone forever. Fundamentally the other major parties just don’t offer the solutions necessary to prevent the conditions that create NDP voters, and/or disillusioned Liberals/Conservatives. The liberals and Conservatives won’t solve poverty, inequality, immigration, this housing crisis or the next one, or any other hot button issue of the day. Liberal and Conservative voters alike will be lured to alternatives as their respective parties fail to solve important problems, assuming there aren’t enough of them benefiting from that lack of solution.
Whether the NDP can solve those problems is a different question of course, and a lack of electoral reform could kill all third parties eventually, but in a world of growing inequality and worsening outcomes, there’s room to capture dissent.
Federal NDP is a lost cause when they decided to put [fraudulent international students](https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-calls-permanent-residency-defrauded-punjabi-international-students-facing-deportation) over young Canadians who can not find entry level jobs due to having to compete with foreign surplus labour.