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Matthew Lau: Every way you look at NDP you lose

Would-be leaders favour government grocery stores, more municipal EVs and CEO salary regulation. Even former leaders are opposed

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Regarding political candidates’ debates, Simon and Garfunkel famously sang: “Laugh about it, shout about it, when you’ve got to choose, every way you look at it you lose!” They weren’t singing about last week’s NDP leadership debate, but they might as well have been. The line about losing would be true for two reasons. First, with any of these candidates and their policies, Canadians lose. But second, whoever becomes leader, the NDP will lose the next election. There’s no need to shout about the NDP; we can laugh about them instead.

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