I find it hard to see how a disgruntled NDP supporter would jump to the Grits. That's like a rock ribbed Cuban communist becoming a 1960's Kennedy Democrat in my opinion. A bridge too far.
Socialist NDP voters would probably go for the Liberals.
That’s likely to guarantee Justin Trudeau a second term in Ottawa, if nothing else changes.
[S]houldnt someone tag Mr. Kennedys bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his State Socialism, and way before him it was benevolent monarchy.If NDP and Conservatives are at least that close, then I wonder.
Reagan to Nixon, 1960
"At no time in our history have so many tens of millions of people been so completely enthusiastic about an Inaugural Address as about yours." -- rock ribbed Communist sympathizer and former "Progressive Party" nominee Henry Wallace at JFK's inauguration, 1961.