The 2019 Federal NDPs Election Platform Doesnt Look Anything Like The Partys 2015 Iteration And Thats

NDP platform confirms u-turn from Mulcair era

The promises laid out by Singh were met by several standing ovations from party members on hand, and likely comes as a relief after Mulcair’s platform — which many New Democrats saw as a rejection of NDP values. Mulcair went into the campaign leading the polls but ultimately fell to third place behind the Liberals and Conservatives.

The 2019 federal NDP’s election platform doesn’t look anything like the party’s 2015 iteration and that’s the way Jagmeet Singh wants it.

‘”I’m a different leader,” Singh proclaimed to reporters when explaining the dramatic difference in election platforms from the party between two consecutive votes.

Singh, at the helm of the party since October 2017, revealed a platform Sunday that promises major new social programs, spending and tax hikes. The platform is night and day from the platform put forward in the 2015 election by then leader Tom Mulcair.

In that election, Mulcair ran his party down the middle and ended up having his lunch eaten by the Liberals, who outflanked him on the left. Mulcair promised to run on balanced budgets and pitched only a few new social programs — the biggest of which was a national $15 a day child care program.

Fast forward four years and the NDP are promising universal pharmacare, dental care, mental health care, hearing and vision care and billions in new spending on climate change and housing. Singh is also taking 2015 tax hike plans further with more aggressive tax increases on corporations and the wealthy and a new wealth tax.

“It’s an affirmation of our values, it’s an affirmation who we are as New Democrats and what Canadians need,” Singh told reporters.

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