Juno News - April 19, 2025


Have the Liberals absorbed the NDP？


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In this episode, we discuss the collapse of the New Democratic Party in Canada and why it s time to ask the question: Is this the end of the road for the New Democrats? We also talk about David Eby and Wab Kanu and what they can do to turn things around for the party.

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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