‘Hope not hate’: NDP positions Pierre Poilievre as key opponent as they start convention with an eye to next election

Senior NDP officials said the party gets a better response when it’s in a ‘blue-orange fight.’

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to a resolution on adopting a wealth tax at the New Democratic Party convention in Hamilton, Ont., on Oct. 13, 2023. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHELSEA NASH

October 13, 2023

The federal NDP kicked off its first in-person convention in five years on Friday, but the name on everybody’s lips wasn’t Jagmeet Singh: it was Pierre Poilievre.

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