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Is NDP at risk in CanadaVote2025? Is Jagmeet Singh calling for strategic voting?
Apr 22, 2025
Is NDP at risk in CanadaVote2025? Is Jagmeet Singh calling for strategic voting?
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and we'll start with David Thurton CBC
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News hi Mr singh good morning happy
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Easter um first question I just want to
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ask you is about we were door knocking
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yesterday uh with your candidate uh Miss
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Collins and one of the things that you
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were talking to people at the door was
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about liberal sorry the NDP New
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Democrats on the island stop
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conservatives and if you want to stop
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conservatives you were telling voters
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you need to vote for New Democrats
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and you also saw a sign that kind of had
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that similar flavor so in the past the
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NDP hasn't really benefited from
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strategic voting but it seems that
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you're calling for that now so are you
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calling for strategic voting in this
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election well I'm calling for folks who
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are worried about conservatives to vote
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for your incumbent New Democrat if
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you're worried about conservatives and
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you're worried about them getting in
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vote for a new Democrat to beat
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conservatives here on the island that's
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who beats conservatives and for folks
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who are worried about Mark Carney and
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the fact that he is proposing massive
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cuts that's something you're worried
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about send a New Democrat to Ottawa
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we're gonna fight back against those
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cuts no matter who the government is if
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you're worried about cuts to healthcare
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vote for New Democrat if you're worried
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about conservatives winning vote for
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your New Democrat incumbent if you're
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worried about having someone that's
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going to be on your side or not you know
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New Democrats will always be on your
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side vote for a New Democrat
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that sounds like you're calling for
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strategic voting well I'm calling for
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people to vote according to what they
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care about most and if they want to stop
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a conservative here in Vancouver Island
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the best way to do that is to vote for
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New Democrat if people are worried about
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you live in downtown Toronto and you're
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worried about Mark Carney's plans to cut
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the things you need vote for New
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Democrat send a New Democrat to Ottawa
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and we'll fight back and make sure that
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no government cuts the things that you
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need wherever you are if you're worried
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about who's going to be on my side in
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this in this really uncertain time lots
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of anxiety lots of fear lots of worry if
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you are concerned that you're not sure
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who's going to be on my side vote for a
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new Democrat and we're going to fight
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for you next CTV News good morning uh
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you're spending this weekend in the West
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Coast hitting up ridings that the NDP
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currently hold is that because you're
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concerned they could be at risk
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we want to spend our time in beautiful
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parts of our country where we can let
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Canadians know that they've got someone
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on their side and so in many elections
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we spend time here on Vancouver Island
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you can understand why if you're
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anywhere else in the country in April
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you want to spend time in Vancouver
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Island but but more importantly we
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really want folks to know that they've
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got an important choice in this election
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and so for folks on the island who've
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been feeling a lot of worry and anxiety
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I know that you're worried about Pierre
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Polyv and the cuts that conservatives
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are proposing and I know more and more
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people are telling me well Mark Carney's
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talking a lot about cuts as well vote
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for a new Democrat if you're worried we
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will beat conservatives and we'll be a
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strong voice for you in Ottawa so
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speaking of Mark Carney yesterday he was
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telling a crowd in Peterbr to think
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about what the liberals could do with a
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strong mandate you've shown and have
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talked about in recent days what the NDP
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could do in a minority situation but
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what do you see as your party's role if
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Canadians elect a majority government
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next week well ultimately we know that
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Canada works best when one party doesn't
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have all the power and just we have lots
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of examples of that we have lots of
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proof of that think about anything that
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you're proud of as at the federal level
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people are proud of our health care
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system proud of pensions old age
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security each one of those things were
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brought in when New Democrats were
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strong in Ottawa and were able to fight
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and force the government to deliver
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liberals never deliver on their own if
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you love and believe in the idea of
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pharmarmacare well the liberals would
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never have delivered it they promised it
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for three decades and never moved on it
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until we forced them to do it in the
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recent minority government so what we've
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seen is auto works best not just when
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one party doesn't have all the power but
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when you send strong new Democrats to
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Ottawa to fight for you and so I would
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ask Canadians if you want to see healthc
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care expanded and defend it vote for New
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Democrat if you want to see
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pharmarmacare move forward Mark
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Cernney's already said he's not
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interested in expanding it he's not made
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that commitment i will fight to expand
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it vote for New Democrat if you want to
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see food prices come down that's
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something that you're worried about
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because food prices continue to rise we
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will fight for bringing in a price cap
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on food essentials and bring down your
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groceries vote for a new Democrat can
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you do that in a majority
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well ultimately Canadians are going to
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choose the outcome of this election
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that's going to be Canadian's choice i
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want them to know for all the things
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that I hear people are worried about the
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best way to achieve those things is to
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vote for a new Democrat my second
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question is for Laurel if that's all
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right um this rioting of Victoria has
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been held by the NDP since 1988 I
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believe um Victoria is one of those
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ridings that the Liberals are eyeing
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um polling suggests a big chunk of
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voters have decided to move from the NDP
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to the Liberals are you worried that
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your seat is at risk well what we've
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been seeing in this campaign is more
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people than ever requesting lawn signs
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more than in my past two campaigns we've
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had tons of people coming in wanting to
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volunteer we've had young people taking
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time out of their busy lives to
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volunteer on the campaign and it's
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because they know what's at stake this
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is a critically important election and
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for the past two decades year after year
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election after election it has been New
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Democrats who beat conservatives in
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Victoria and so people have been coming
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out to support our campaign and I'm so
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grateful grateful to this community for
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sending New Democrats not only because
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on Vancouver Island that's who stops
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conservatives because they know that if
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they send a New Democrat to Ottawa they
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will defend what matters most to this
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community is it critical is it critical
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for the NDP though this election is
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critical for our country and for the NDP
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I think for everyone right now we are
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facing huge threats uh from the south
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people are very worried about what
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Pierre Palv would mean for this country
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and here on Vancouver Island people are
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coming out to support New Democrats
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because they know that's who stops
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conservatives and that's who fights to
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keep Canada Canada
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uh no you should definitely not put all
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your eggs in one basket we've been we've
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been taught this our whole life folks we
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know that you don't do that and in this
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election that totally applies continuing
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with the beautiful egg metaphor thank
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you for doing that uh yeah you shouldn't
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put all your eggs in one basket you
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shouldn't put all your power in one
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party and we know that that's just how
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our country has worked best all the
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great things in our country have
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happened when one party doesn't have all
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the power and particularly at the same
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time when new Democrats are strong so
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vote for New Democrats who are going to
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fight for the things that you hold dear
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and defend those things michael for real
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Michael John Low Times colonist
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are you going to be campaigning further
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up Vancouver Island this election you're
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calling for people to vote for uh
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incumbent NDPs and if polls are to be
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believed several MPs up island are
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fighting for their political life are
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you going to show up for example in Nimo
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or Port Al Bernie to shore up support
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for Lisa Marie Baron Gord John's etc
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yeah we're going to go up to Duncan
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today and then onwards to Nimo and so
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wherever you are on the island if you
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want to stop conservatives vote New
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Democrat it is the surefire way the best
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way to stop conservatives on the island
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is to vote New Democrat and at the same
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time the best way to ensure you've got
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someone that's going to fight to defend
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the things that you hold dear if you
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care about universal public health care
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and you don't want to see cuts at the
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federal level vote for a new Democrat if
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you want to see prices come down and
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stop corporate grocery stores from
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ripping you off vote for a new Democrat
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for the things that matter most to
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people if you send a New Democrat use
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your power and vote for a new Democrat
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we will fight for you and defend you so
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is this a call for strategic voting on
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the island this is a call for people on
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the island who want to stop
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conservatives to vote new Democrat this
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is a call for people across the country
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who are worried about the cuts of both
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Mark Carney and Pierre Paul both who are
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planning massive cuts you want someone
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that's going to fight back against those
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cuts
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