mulcair is on record more than once clarifying that his plan for the ndp is to emulate the labour party under tony blair.

what's worse is that he's purged the party of it's better mps, which has been the only real hope of the ndp since the liberals walloped them over nafta. they legitimately had quality mps, relative to the limitations of the system. but, they're pretty much all standing down this election, or retired quietly. on top of that, he's been merciless in stamping anything out that deviates from the party line. they removed "socialist" from the party in 2013, but these are the same crappy tactics you continually get from the authoritarian left - party line politics that is intolerant of dissent or free thought, centralized power, cult of leadership....it's actually feeling worse than a cave to capital, it's starting to get a little creepy.

it's to the point where i'm wavering between voting for a bourgeois liberal that happens to be mildly critical of free trade and launching an online campaign to suppress voting. i'm starting to feel that the only thing that's going to get through to the system is non-voting on a serious, large scale. if they were to wake up on election day and see a 25% turnout, it might be the most effective tool at this point.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/19/cana-a19.html