i need to repeat: they had a very good platform.
and the other parties were awful...
voting liberal in 2015 admittedly required a little naivete, or a little cynicism, and it's funny how that sometimes works out, but it was the right choice - given how bad the other options were.
and, it is equally clear that voting for the liberals is the wrong choice in 2019 - now that they've proven that all they intend to do is carry on with the same set of neo-liberal policies as the conservatives, except on overdrive.
the ndp still have a chance to make a case, but the right choice this election is going to be to vote for a protest party - and shrug it off as irrelevant if the conservatives win, because there's not any meaningful difference on any substantive file, anyways.
that's why he's running on the largely irrelevant issue of immigration. well, irrelevant, so long as you're not now competing with refugees for resources...