Parsing a blind copy of the weekend’s Liberal resolutions, one would be forgiven for confusing it with an embryonic NDP election platform. In his keynote address to the convention, Justin Trudeau cast next year’s election as a two-way fight between his Liberals and the Conservatives. Article Continued BelowThat silence about the New Democrats should concern the Conservatives as much as the Liberal attacks on their party. Over the past decades, a significant division of the non-conservative vote between the Liberals and the New Democrats has been key to Conservative successes. By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

Source: thestar April 23, 2018 20:15 UTC