Frank Delorey: The modern NDP, now fully captured by the Avi Lewis wing, isn’t just ignoring the working class; they view their industries with outright contempt.
And nature abhors a political vacuum.
Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have been laser-focused on this exact vulnerability. They aren’t wooing the union bosses – they’re going straight to the actual members. The Tories are aggressively championing what my campaign in 2021 first identified as the “left behind.” These are the voters who play by the rules, work their hands to the bone, and watch everyone else get ahead while they get crushed by the housing crisis and skyrocketing affordability issues. They’re exhausted, they’re angry, and Poilievre is speaking their language – even backing pro-labour, anti-business legislation over the years to prove he means it…