To be more successful, the NDP can reclaim its heritage of left-wing populism

A way forward for the NDP is not so much in countering the Liberals as it is about capturing the main anti-establishment thrust from the Conservatives.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stands in solidarity with the striking members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The party's supply-and-confidence agreement, while responsible for some policy success, is awkward for the NDP, writes Sam Routley.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SAM ROUTLEY

April 24, 2023

As political scientist Richard Johnston has long argued, Canadian federal politics orbits around the Liberal Party’s dominance of the centre. Johnston's argument entails that, rather than come from polar ends of the ideological spectrum, the Conservatives and New Democrats...

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