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Balance of Power: the NDP in Minority Parliament 2019–2021

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Chapter 8 examines the NDP’s role during Trudeau’s minority government between 2019 and 2021. The chapter covers topics including the Wet’suwet’en resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, Indigenous sovereignty as respected by the NDP, the NDP’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), BC NDP premier John Horgan’s controversies, and Singh’s focus on differentiating themselves from Trudeau’s Liberals.

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Matt Fodor

Matt Fodor is a writer, political strategist and PhD candidate in political science at York University. His research areas are Comparative politics and Canadian politics with a special interest in social democracy. Matt is a long-time observer of the NDP and has written extensively about the party at the federal and provincial level, including chapters in Party of Conscience (2013) and Tax is Not a Four-Letter Word (2018). He has contributed to NOW, Rabble and The Bullet. He lives in Toronto.