We will see a number of these sentiments today. That’s not bad, as legacies go. https://t.co/ymF3vNSIv3
— Kelly Lamrock, Q.C. (@KLamrock) January 1, 2017
A UNB Saint John political scientist calls being the leader of the New Brunswick NDP party a “really challenging role” given the party doesn’t have much of a track record for success here.
JP Lewis says it appears some sort of split in the party led to Dominic Cardy’s resignation earlier this week but what the impact may be on the provincial NDP party is unclear at this point.
He says it’s hard to say adding anyone who met him found Dominic Cardy to be a formidable politician and a big thinker. He says he did get the NDP to 13 per cent in the popular vote in the 2014 election but they still didn’t win any seats.
Statement by @BlaineHiggs -Dominic Cardy: https://t.co/DGGbw5Ys8D #NB #nbpoli
— PCNB (@pcnbca) January 4, 2017
We asked Cardy about the potential for party switching as in Cardy becoming a PC candidate running in the next election.
He says most people would consider it a quite a jump going from the NDP to the PC’s but people did think he was pushing the party closer to the centre so it may be it’s not such a big leap.
Lewis says this could present a window of opporotunity for another party to break through because more than 20 per cent of New Brunswickers didn’t vote for the Liberals or the Tories in the 2014 election.
