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Re:Canada Imposes 5% Tax on Streaming to Fund Local News, Di... by cmrdporcupine on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:18AM (#40669997)
Tactical "necessity", strategic blunder.

I suspect almost complete decimation in the next election, and Singh out right after.

NDP needs to return to delegate based leadership elections.

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Re:Canada Imposes 5% Tax on Streaming to Fund Local News, Di... by canadiantim on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:21AM (#40670030)
I think you're right. I would have voted for Jack Layton, did vote for Mulcair, but won't vote for Singh.
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Re:Canada Imposes 5% Tax on Streaming to Fund Local News, Di... by cmrdporcupine on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:23AM (#40670067)
Ideologically, I'm far far to the left of Mulcair but could plainly see the guy was an extremely competent parliamentarian and debater and organizer. He should have put up a struggle to stay as leader. He would have held Trudeau to account and kept some integrity for the party. The people who ran his "Smilin' Tom" campaign should have been fired.

Huge mis-steps during COVID and after by the NDP. They've completely lost their bearing as a party for working people people.

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