Liberal backlash fuelling NDP (Canada) [View All]

[Minstrel Boy]

Calgary Sun, Sunday May 23

OTTAWA -- By fending off the Greens and bleeding red Tory and Liberal support, Canada's political party of the left is gearing up to make a big breakthrough. Under the popular leadership of Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party is eyeing B.C. and urban Ontario as key spots to capitalize on the Liberal backlash that's sweeping the country.

"There are some fairly eye-popping opportunities out there," said NDP organizer Brian Topp.

"The NDP is going in to this campaign very optimistically, and it hasn't felt this way since the 1988 campaign. It's nice that we're back."

A federal election coinciding with the Ontario Liberal government's bad-news provincial budget has created a "fluid" landscape in the tough Ontario battleground that could swing seats to the NDP in Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Windsor, Northern Ontario and ridings with industrial towns.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/05/23/470058.html

Link to new campaign ad:

http://www.ndp.ca/audiovideo/NDP-ideas-en.wmv