Matthew Lau: The NDP is always wrong: That’s almost impressive

financialpost.com:

Pierre Poilievre spent last weekend at the Conservative convention offering Canadians hope for a better and more affordable country after Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister ends. Meanwhile, Trudeau’s Liberals are taking a well-deserved public opinion thrashing — the inevitable backlash against their failed policies and unwavering insistence that the miserable outcomes they have produced are in fact splendid results. The Liberal caucus is said to be frustrated, discouraged, angry and disillusioned.

The NDP, largely irrelevant, sits squarely on the sidelines, so its mood is harder to diagnose. For Canadians outside that party, however, here are two appropriate emotions: amusement that the NDP remains so low in the polls and bemusement that it seems so content to be so low.

These days, the federal NDP is most notable for how weak it is. That it has any real plan, any intellectual coherence, any economic sanity, any vision for improving the country, or that it deserves any electoral success, no serious person can believe. Its criticisms of the federal government’s failures are wholly ineffective: the government survives only because of the NDP’s support. Party leader Jagmeet Singh often blames inequality, unaffordability or other outcomes he laments on bad Liberal and Conservative policies. He is evidently oblivious to the fact that it his party, not the Conservatives, that is propping up the Liberal government.

The public is not fooled: as long as the NDP allows the Liberal agenda to continue it must share the blame. Whatever credibility the party had it surrendered by supporting the government, and whatever hope it has of restoring its credibility is frustrated by its leader’s singular inauthenticity. The term