Two area MP’s head back to Ottawa

What else the NDP is going to do is a question we asked of former Provincial NDP cabinet minister and NDP faithful Lois Boone, with the national party leader Jagmeet Singh stepping down.

“I would have liked to have seen us keep more seats in BC,” says Lois Boone, former NDP Cabinet minister. “But I know that a lot of NDP people that I know were voting strategically. They were nervous, very nervous, about Pierre Poilievre. About what his actions would be with regards to social programs and what his voting record actually told us, you know?”

She recounts what she heard anecdotally what some from fellow NDP-faithful during this campaign and what she would have done had done under the right circumstance.

“Honestly, if I had a viable candidate that here – not that our candidate wasn’t viable – but if we had a candidate that I thought would win here that was a Liberal, I probably would have voted Liberal. But we did not have that in my riding.”

But everyone agrees the party federally has a very deep hole to dig out of.

“It doesn’t look like a growing enterprise at the moment,” says Dr. Tedford. “David Eby has already said he is not interested. I think there will be a lot of pressure on Wab Kinew to consider a bid for leadership, but he’s only recently become the premier of Manitoba and I imagine he probably wouldn’t want to leave that job. So in the short term, choose an interim leader, try and hold the government accountable and see if you can extract any concessions from them.”

In the meantime, Mark Carney’s Liberals hang on to a minority government.

Elections Canada confirmed late Tuesday that the Liberal do have a minority.

by Cheryl Jahn

Two area MP’s head back to Ottawa

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