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After years of “vote split” ideas, former NDP leader Tom Mulcair actually warned NDP supporters not to vote in the 2025 election.

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In a column on Bloomberg News on March 24, Mulcair warned that the threat from U.S. President Donald Trump is too terrible to vote for third parties, and that the upcoming election should be a “match between liberals and conservatives.”

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“If you can’t seriously say you’re forming a administration that can take over Trump, get out of the way and let the only real competitor have it,” he wrote.

Mulcair was the leader of the New Democratic Party between 2012 and 2017, a period that made the party form an official opposition to the Stephen Harper administration.

It is also the allegation that Mulcair often has to resist that the vote against his New Democratic Party can only split the gradual vote into the interests of the Conservative Party.

Mulcair also admitted in his Bloomberg column: “When I was an NDP leader, I used to be clumsy when I heard liberals warn against ‘split voting’. It seemed like the title was like this, as if the “voting” belonged to them.”

According to Mulcair, this time there has been a change, an extraordinary threat to the United States, which he called it a “threat to Canada.”

The election was largely caused by the impending trade war initiated by the Trump administration. This is a threat to Trump repeatedly regarding Canada as the “51st state” and is also the reason why Mulcair recommends that third parties (such as NDP) be regarded as “after-the-fact thoughts.”

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“That’s why this will be a game between the dominant liberals and the opposition conservatives, with little room for others,” he wrote.

Mulcair also noted that the NDP is voting at an all-time low, leaving the party irrelevant to the form of determining the next federal government.

In a poll by the Angus Reid Institute, the same day the release of Mulcair’s Poinder, NDP voted with a record 7%. If these numbers have been held on Election Day, then it can be translated into a core group with only one or two seats. The worst performance ever.

Angus Reid’s poll is also the first direct result of confirming NDP support as a direct result of traditional NDP voters stamping liberals. The survey found that among the respondents who voted for the New Democratic Party in 2021, 50% of them planned to vote freely this time, while only 35% planned to vote for NDP again.

“Now, I even hear from the tough lifelong ‘dippers’ (as we joked to call ourselves) that Canada is so risky that in this election they will be helping and voting for liberals.”

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Although Mulcair praised NDP leader Jagmeet Singh as a “heroic fighter”, he noted that there is no longer much daylight between the parties, as the NDP has been picking on the minority of liberals for most of the past four years.

“(Singh) has a hard time convincing progressive voters, and the Liberals have been elites when they were with them in the past few years,” Murkar wrote.

Mulcair and Singh led the NDP to the 2015 elections slightly differently.

Not only did Mulcair enter the campaign as an official opposition leader, but the polls initially showed that the NDP won at least the minority government. “We are the only party that can beat conservatives,” Mulcair said during the 2015 campaign.

Ultimately, Mulcair’s chancellor was plagued by the exact same phenomenon he now advocated against the NDP successor.

Half of the 2015 campaign, progressive voters will defect to liberals, ensuring that most governments compete for the Liberal Party and losing 51 seats for Mulcair.

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Mulcair’s column is also filmed on the Greens and Bloc Québécois, who is also accused of being too weak to remain relevant.

In the case of the group, Trump’s threat to Canadian sovereignty ironically has a detrimental impact on the parties in Quebec sovereignty. Support for Quebec independence has been almost as fast as the state’s support for the New Democratic Party since the beginning of the trade war.

“Many Quebec voters are turning to (liberal Mark) Carney because they want someone to have experience to deal with the economy…and Trump!”

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