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Fighting for Survival: the 2019 Federal Election

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From: From Layton to Singh

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Chapter 7 examines the NDP under Jasmeet Singh’s leadership and party platform moving towards the 2019 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including Singh’s first controversies, his timing fighting to find and win a seat in parliament, the “Courage to Leap” platform, Singh’s campaign and eventual victory for the seat for Burnaby South, "A New Deal for People", Trudeau’s black face controversy and the NDP’s reaction, and the NDP’s turn out in the 2019 election.

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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.