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With NDP polling at new low, will Jagmeet Singh's campaign pivot to triage mode?
Apr 9, 2025
With NDP polling at new low, will Jagmeet Singh's campaign pivot to triage mode?
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thank you next question rachel Ayello
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CTV good morning uh Nanos's latest
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numbers out this morning show that the
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NDP have fallen to 8% support i know you
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say you're getting questions in every
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election about the polls but you are now
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at a new numeric low uh should we expect
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your campaign to pivot to triage mode
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next week uh again we saw in the Ontario
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election that just happened a couple
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months ago they literally predicted the
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same aggregate said that the New
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Democratic Party would not have party
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status they literally formed the
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official opposition so I'm not worried
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about that what I'm focused on in this
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campaign is the choice that people have
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people are rejecting the message of
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Pierre Paul and the Conservatives saying
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you know what the cuts that he's
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proposing not good for our country not
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good for my family not good for me
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that's not that's a no for me and now
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people are starting to look at Mark
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Cardi and saying well he's also talking
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about cuts and he's someone that's not
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going to protect me and my family
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against the the exploitation I'm
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experiencing as a renter he's not
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someone who's going to stand up for me
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if you're worried about that send a new
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Democrat to fight for you vote for Lisa
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Roberts here in Halifax and you'll have
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someone that's going to be on your side
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but respectfully aren't you risking the
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future of your party by taking this head
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down steady as she goes approach and not
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trying to change things up uh we are
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focused on people and this campaign
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matters this campaign is very important
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so we're going to use every day of this
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campaign to give people a real choice i
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don't want people to think and I'm sure
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liberals and conservatives would love
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for you to think that you have no other
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choice in this election they would love
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for you to have no one out there
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pointing out that Mark Harney is someone
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that profited off of the housing crisis
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i'm sure he would love for us to not be
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here to say that i'm sure that Paul Pier
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probably would love for us to not point
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out that his plan to cut people services
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at a time of potential recession and
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economic disaster is a horrible plan but
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we're not going anywhere we're never
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going to give up fighting for people
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thank you nalma Rafares Canadian Press
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yeah thank you um we're two weeks into
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the campaign now and I wonder if it
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seems unrealistic at this point that we
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will see an NDP government at the end of
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this campaign would you be willing to
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say at this point that uh Canadians
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should elect a minority Liberal or
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Conservative government if it's not
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going to be an NDP government well um I
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can tell you from from my lived
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experience from what I've seen we were
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in a minority government and I can tell
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you that just 25 new Democrats were able
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to bring in dental care that has helped
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millions of Canadians literally millions
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of people have been able to look after
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their teeth because we fought to bring
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that in with just 25 of us 25 of us
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brought in Pharmarmacare and now three
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provinces are going to have free birth
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control and diabetes medication and
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devices because we fought for it just 25
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of us so imagine what would happen if
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you elected more of us sent more of us
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to Ottawa if you sent more of us to
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Ottawa we could fight for you even more
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if you sent me as your prime minister I
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would be honored to serve people would
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choose the outcome of this election i'm
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asking people to consider who do you
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want in Ottawa fighting for you who do
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you want standing up to say you know
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what no I'm not going to let corporate
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landlords rip you off who do you want in
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Ottawa to say you know what I want us to
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have more affordable groceries i'm going
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to put in a price cap on food essentials
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who do you want in Ottawa fighting for
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you and your family for fighting for the
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things that you hold dear that's a new
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Democrat and so send Lisa Roberts if you
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live here in Halifax wherever you live
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send a new Democrat that's going to
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fight for you thank you last question
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angela Kopabanka Global News
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hi so leading into this election the NDP
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didn't have any seats in Atlantic Canada
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i guess I'm wondering how confident are
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you that the NDP will win any seats in
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the region very confident i I've spoken
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to lots of folks that remember what it
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was like to have a new Democrat fighting
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for them they remember what it was like
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having Megan Leslie here in in Halifax
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and they feel the loss of not having
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someone that's actually standing up for
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them someone that's not actually
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fighting for them someone that's
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bringing kind of the message from Ottawa
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here instead of taking Halifax's message
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to Ottawa and so that's what you're
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going to get with the New Democrat if
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you elect Lisa Robbins you're going to
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get a voice that's going to say you know
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what Halifax deserves better that we
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need better protections for renters we
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need better protections for people that
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in all this struggle who's going to be
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in it for you and not the billionaires
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that's New Democrats that's us that's
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Lisa Roberts and so I'm hearing that
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more and more in St john's in uh Newf
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Fland Labrador we've got um Mary Short
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running there uh who has shown people
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that she's a fighter for them fighter
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for people so the people in Atlantic I
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think you deserve a lot better than
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folks that haven't had your back and
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haven't been your voice for you you
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deserve a new Democrat vote for one
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no more questions thank you thanks so
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much
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that concludes the press conference for
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today thank you everybody
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