Maybe it has to do with the NDP not actually being progressive and just being Liberal Light. I mean that’s kind of Lucy Watson’s thing. She did it to the Ontario NDP and is now doing it to the federal party.
There’s a fundamental difference between the NDP and Liberals that’s often overlooked: proportional representation.
The NDP consistently supports proportional representation, while the Liberals have repeatedly promised and abandoned it. This isn’t a small policy disagreement - it’s about whether every vote should count in our democracy.
The NDP’s declining support is partly structural - our First-Past-the-Post system inherently punishes third parties through Duverger’s Law. Canada’s effective number of parties is already down to 2.76 and declining, pushing us toward a two-party system.
The Liberals are actually closer to the Conservatives than to the NDP on many issues. Remember when 107 Liberal MPs (68.6%) voted against a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform?
The NDP’s challenge isn’t being “Liberal Light” - it’s fighting against a system mathematically designed to eliminate parties beyond the big two.
Though to be fair, the federal party has been doing it to themselves before she started corrupting their ranks. I mean Mulcair was a fantastic Liberal, he was just accidentally leading the wrong party.
They’re centrist but the Liberals are centre-right
It’s because everyone shifted a party to the left when the Reform party took over the Conservatives
I would vote for them if they had any hope of winning in my area, but they Poll around less than 10%. Not even sure if my riding will have an NDP candidate
If you don’t feel you can support the NDP, what about supporting Fair Vote Canada?
