Is the NDP panicking?

The Liberal Party is fighting for its political life, the Conservatives appear to be riding the crest of a 'Blue Wave,' the Green Party is on the rise, and the NDP is still basically irrelevant.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, pictured recently in Ottawa. Almost immediately after losing a recent byelection to the Greens, Mr. Singh called for nothing less than putting an end to the entire Canadian fossil-fuel industry, writes Gerry Nicholls.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—If nothing else, the SNC-Lavalin scandal has dramatically altered Canada’s political landscape. Suddenly the Liberal Party is fighting for its political life; suddenly the Conservatives appear to be riding the crest of a “Blue Wave”; suddenly the Green Party is on the rise; a...

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