The leader of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh, admitted for the first time that his party faces “massive challenges” as their voting numbers close near a single digit and voters look elsewhere looking for a champion to fight against the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
“Let’s be clear that there are massive challenges, I have no illusions about that. There are some serious challenges we face,” he said in Toronto on Tuesday.
Singh said that in all elections his party is asked about his electoral relevance in a country that has never had an NDP prime minister, but insisted that he will continue to fight during the next five weeks, regardless of.
“Will I give up fighting for the people who need you to fight for them? No, I am never going to give up. I don’t care what is happening. I’m always going to be there to fight for people,” he said.
Singh said that conservative leader Pierre Poiliever and liberal leader Mark Carney are only interested in fighting for billionaires and corporations, while he will focus on fighting for common Canadians.
“I’m always going to fight for the people who need it most,” said Singh.
The NDP leader made his comments a day after the former NDP leader Tom Mulcair wrote a column for CTV In which he said that the only questions that Canadians have in mind is who is the best leader to fight with Trump.
“That is why this is emerging as a career between the ruling liberals and the conservatives of the opposition, with little plenty of space for others,” he said.
“If you cannot seriously say that a government will form that you can face Trump, then leave the way and let the only real contestants have it,” Mulcair added.
‘One of its worst results in at least 30 years’: Grenier
According to him CBC survey trackerThat he adds public opinion surveys, the NDP was elbow with the liberals in mid -December with approximately 20 percent support to 22 percent support from liberals. The conservatives had about 43 percent support.
But since former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned, Trump began to fight an economic and political war against Canada, and Carney became the new liberal leader, the surveys have changed completely.
The monitoring of the CBC survey now has conservatives to 37 percent support with liberals that increase to 40 percent support and the NDP cling to less than 10 percent support.
Éric Grenier, who directs the CBC survey tracker, said the increase in liberal numbers is part of the NDP slide in the last two months.
“To see how quickly the NDP vote collapsed with the change of [Liberal] The leadership suggests that many of those voters parked their vote with the NDP. But as soon as another alternative appeared, they were ready to leave the party, “he said.
All this is taking place in a context of uncertainty, since Trump imposes tariffs and threatens Canada’s sovereignty. This uncertainty means that the main problems of the NDP campaign, such as affordability and housing, are forced to share space with concerns about the volatility that now defines the relationship of Canada/EE. UU.
“You probably have to return to the 1990s to find the NDP survey so bad,” Grenier said.
“If the NDP continues to survey at this level for a constant and constant amount of time, the NDP could be on its way to one of its worst results in at least 30 years,” he added.
