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Gunter: Federal NDP doomed after abandoning traditional, big-tent labour roots

Vancouver NDP MP cautioned party members last December they should focus on working people’s issues instead of becoming obsessed with identity politics

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Don Davies, the Vancouver New Democrat MP who served as his party’s interim leader until the election of Avi Lewis last weekend, cautioned party members last December that if the NDP wanted to avoid another drubbing at the polls, it should focus on working people’s issues instead of becoming obsessed with identity politics.

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The party didn’t listen.

The NDP convention in Winnipeg was the most identity-focused political gathering ever for a major Canadian party.

Much has already been said about the radical economic and environmental agendas the party endorsed by electing Lewis. Lewis wants an immediate end to oil and gas development, including LNG, then tens of billions spent to replace all fossil fuels with renewable energy (as if that were possible outside an environmentalist’s fevered dreams).

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