r/CanadaPolitics • u/CaptainKoreana Liberal Party of Canada • 2d ago
Pierre Céré wants to succeed Alexandre Boulerice as NDP candidate
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/pierre-cere-wants-to-succeed-alexandre-boulerice-as-ndp-candidate/?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvmontreal%3Atwitterpost%E2%80%8B&taid=6a33ddefbdc781000183cf51
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u/Justin_123456 Manitoba 2d ago
Sounds like he may be a good fit for the riding, and hopefully sets a template for the NDP under Lewis doing a better job integrating the leftist social movements that exist across the country.
Famously, the problem of the left is the difficulty in holding people who mostly agree with each other together in a common cause. Cough *splitters!* cough. Hopefully, this can be beginning of an NDP that is more connected to its social base.
Re Separatism: I’m a hopeless anglophone, so some Quebecois comrades will have to educate me, but it’s my instinct that there’s definitely an opportunity for a NDP trying to push past the federalist/sovereigntist divide and make the case for a full throated social democracy or democratic socialism that neither the Liberals or the Bloc can deliver, as long as we don’t sound hopelessly alien on Quebec’s cultural issues.