Juno News - April 19, 2025


Have the Liberals absorbed the NDP？


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00:00:00.000 Well, let's talk about BC a little bit more here.
00:00:02.620 David Eby was meeting with Mark Carney a little bit ago.
00:00:05.800 Reporters asked him, do you want Mark Carney to win?
00:00:08.420 They asked him that explicitly, and of course he didn't come out with an answer,
00:00:11.080 but it was weird to see them being so friendly from different parties.
00:00:14.700 Do you think that this is the collapse of the NDP?
00:00:17.700 Is this them merging and just saying, yeah, we're not even going to try to pretend
00:00:22.580 that Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau were governing as separate parties for the last five years?
00:00:27.480 Is it over for the NDP?
00:00:30.800 And why do you think they're being so friendly?
00:00:32.960 Well, I kind of look at it from a different perspective.
00:00:36.620 The federal liberals are the NDP.
00:00:39.880 I'm sorry, they are.
00:00:41.580 When you look at the policies and approaches, you know, they are the NDP.
00:00:45.020 And Jagmeet is being completely pushed out,
00:00:47.280 and he's got to find some little fringe stuff that he deals with.
00:00:50.480 But the federal liberals have become the NDP, and they've kind of absorbed them.
00:00:53.700 Yeah. And I'm hopeful that, you know, in the election, and I think it's quite possible that you'll see a lot of that NDP vote decide to come home or not vote, which I think will change the election results going forward. But when you look at the policy and approaches, they're almost identical.
00:01:08.280 It's fascinating to see Wab Kanu and David Eby be the thought leaders for the NDP in this election. They have a higher profile than Jagmeet Singh does over the last four weeks, at least.
00:01:19.540 No, they certainly do.
00:01:21.560 And it's actually interesting when you think about also from what David Eby's done.
00:01:26.680 He has backed down on all of his major policies because of what the Conservatives are doing in British Columbia,
00:01:31.780 whether that's getting rid of the carbon tax or whether that is backing down on safe supply.
00:01:36.700 There's so many things that they have done that have been because of the Conservatives.
00:01:40.700 And so they're trying to figure out how to define themselves because they don't want to be defined as Jagmeet.
00:01:45.400 so they are defining themselves more as like a left-wing federal liberal which quite frankly is
00:01:50.660 what the federal liberals have become and i think the people that are really struggling are the
00:01:54.720 people that are in the center of the liberal party because they don't really like that yeah but they
00:01:58.420 don't know they don't where to find a home and i think that's where there's a real opportunity for
00:02:02.020 the conservatives to reach out and broaden its coalition