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Or, you can vote green or NDP and throw away your vote.
NDP has 24 seats in the house of commons so they're winning some elections.
Singh really shat the bed in the past few months. Attacking the prime minister when we're under attack from the US? That kind of infighting in the face of adversity is an ugly look. It's really too bad because Singh made some amazing progress in social democracy and social welfare, he was a tough negotiator and an excellent strategist for years. He picked a bad time to lose the ball. They need a new leader, it's too bad they're going to lose a fuck ton of seats to get there.
My NDP candidate is amazing, I hope they win.
Do you mean when the vote of no confidence happened? Because I remember that happening before Trump's term. And either way—and I have to note I'm talking about the principle of the thing here as I don't know enough about Canadian politics to have an opinion on Singh—one thing you and most other anglophone left-leaning people should realize is that trying to force unity where it doesn't exist is a recipe for disaster. Of course a time of crisis requires prudence, but sometimes you do have to clean house before you can get anything done. And that aside, Singh has constituents he's beholden to; he's not running off game theory either. You might disagree with his remarks (again, I don't know enough about Canadian politics to have an opinion on this) but I doubt he "shat the bed" just because he was critical of Trudeau.
No that's not what I'm talking about, it's hardly even relevant since as you said it was before Trump.
There was no successful vote of non confidence.... Just the conservatives putting on a show knowing they didn't have the votes. Singh promised to topple the government on the next vote, but Parliament wasn't in session, so he didn't have the chance. The liberals called an election robbing Singh of the chance to topple government.
I'm talking about after the tariff war started. Singh is part of the government. Right now it's a minority Liberal government, the only reason we're in that position is that Singh agreed to ally with the government in exchange for concessions, which was excellent statesmanship and fighting for the average Canadian. When Trump announced tariffs Singh was attacking the liberals more than the cons did. To fight against your allies at a time of crisis is in poor taste. You might not think that's in poor taste but there was an IMMEDIATE cratering of NDP support so Canadians CLEARLY think it's in poor taste. They went from 24 seats to polling as low as 3. Sure polls aren't everything, but they do tell you what Canadians think of his decisions.
I'd say going from 24 seats to 3 is "shat the bed" and I only hope one of those 3 is my riding.
Yeah that’s not how strategic voting works in Canada at all. That rhetoric was stupid in the US, but it’s extra mega ultra fucking stupid to try and say in a Canadian election. If you’re going to vote against your morals to stop the conservatives or whatever you’re insinuating you have to look at your ridings and vote accordingly.