[lbo-talk] Canada election

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 09:58:55 PDT 2008


Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> writes:


> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7668738.stm
>
> So it looks like the left got its ass kicked, after all.  Liberals
> lost 27 seats, NPD gained 8, and conservatives gained 19, which is a
> net loss to the left.  Does the current economic meltdown have any
> effect on Canadian voters?
>
> Who is 'New Democrats" anyway?  Politically, that is.  Their website
> is awfully vague - they look leftish, but more like Clinton 'new
> Democrats", no? Wojtek

Well, the NDP seems to be aligned with the Socialist International, who the Clinton Democrats would be more inclined to bomb, so they must be a little more to the left than that. :)



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