The Tragicomic Death Throes of Canada’s (Former) Workers’ Party

The Tragicomic Death Throes of Canada’s (Former) Workers’ Party

By now, many readers—even those who don’t know (or care) about Canadian politics—will have seen the excruciating video highlights from this past weekend’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leadership convention in Winnipeg. The NDP is a venerable left-wing political party that once was tightly conjoined with Canada’s blue-collar union movement. But in recent years, it has been spiralling into irrelevance. And the viral footage from the Winnipeg confere…