Is Mark Carney accidentally giving the NDP its best opening in years?
In this episode of Politics Is Broken, Brittlestar and Lisa B dig into Althia Raj’s Toronto Star opinion piece about Carney’s economic update and what it may signal for pharmacare, child care, health transfers, and the future of progressive voters in Canada.
We also talk about the strange political mood in Ottawa, Stewart’s night at Politics and the Pen, Melissa Lantsman being funnier than expected, Alberta’s latest electoral-list mess, and whether the NDP can finally stop stepping on rakes long enough to become the “not Liberal” option.
Carney may still be the right person for a very difficult moment... but if the Liberals start trimming the very programs that helped define them, progressive voters may start asking a very dangerous question:
“Wait... why does the NDP exist again?”
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