The NDP says Chow’s win suggests Canada’s largest city was looking for progressive change after more than a decade of conservative rule – and it turned to a stalwart among New Democrats to usher that in.
OTTAWA—The mood among federal New Democrats the morning after Olivia Chow was elected Toronto’s next mayor was a little different than it was one week ago.in a quartet of federal byelections that saw their vote share drop across the board compared to the last election. At the time, the NDP spun it this way: all four ridings were locks for other parties, byelections tend to maintain the status quo, and low voter turnout rarely favours the New Democrats.
“She’s going to have a lot of friends at the federal level in the New Democratic Party. I think for ridings from Toronto, Danforth, Beaches, and Davenport, they will certainly be a big pickup, and I think, significantly, Scarborough,” said Ontario NDP MP Charlie Angus, one of the province’s remaining MPs who served with Chow in the House of Commons.
Key figures in Chow’s campaign team have ties to the federal party: one is her campaign director, Michal Hay, who also guided Singh to his leadership victory in 2017. “She’s worked with our caucus on how to better tell our story, how to better connect with other people’s stories.”The party isn’t only looking at Chow as a potential ally to make inroads ahead of the next election. They’re also looking at how she won.
But whether Chow will be able to throw her weight behind the NDP come federal election time is another issue: the mayor-elect has had toAs for whether she will play well with the prime minister, who once sat alongside Chow in the lower chamber as an MP, a senior Liberal government source told the Star that Ottawa saw in yesterday’s vote a desire for “progressive” housing and transit policies, which are priorities of Trudeau’s as well.
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