Imagine an army of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens. That's the NDP.
deathtokoalas
+Anthony Serocco
that was the ndp in the 70s.
nowadays, they're closer to "if rand paul and hillary clinton mated".
a lot of people are arguing that the liberals are consistently to the left of the ndp at both levels, nowadays. the last provincial election in ontario was probably the first election i've seen where it was obvious, to the point that there was a mild uproar, with prominent people writing open letters mourning the death of the ndp. i think it's laying itself down, however slowly, at the federal level, as well.
which is not to suggest that the liberals have become socialists. it's more a commentary on how dramatically far to the right the ndp has moved, and pretty much across the board.
somebody like jill stein would actually be a better representation of a canadian liberal. warren would be on the left of the party, but firmly in it. sanders would have never been a liberal, here, always a dipper. the idea of comparing the liberals to the democrats is really very badly off-base.