As NDP MPs meet in Toronto for their fall caucus retreat, the party is still in rough shape politically and financially.
Federal New Democrats are digging themselves out of their election debt. Their leader still doesn’t have a seat in the House of Commons. And their tiny caucus enters the fall Parliamentary sitting even smaller, after one MP joined the Liberals and another left.
But that’s the one-sided view of the party held by those in the Ottawa political bubble, as NDP Leader Avi Lewis often likes to say. He and others say the New Democrat movement is ripe for a revival — and they think the city of Toronto offers a path forward.
