New Democratic Party

Eight people were killed and dozens of others were injured in the shooting.

Speculation is growing in B.C. about whether the governing NDP will call a snap election this week.

The leader of the province's opposition Conservative Party, Carolyn Finlay, quit yesterday.

Her resignation follows weeks of chaos in the Conservative caucus and the creation of a new right-of-centre alternative party.

And the crisis in opposition ranks continues to drive speculation.

The Premier, David Eby, will call a snap election as early as Tuesday.

His NDP government is less than two years into a four-year mandate and holds a slim one-seat majority.

But despite recent polls showing the NDP in the lead and the Premier's favourability bouncing back, more than 50% of those surveyed in a recent Angus Reid poll say it's time for a change of government.

Where it gets down to, you know, a third of your existing caucus that got elected under the conservative banner aren't conservatives.

And then all the people who supported a non-NDP government that had been successfully elected many times, none of those people are allowed in either.

They're all not.

They're not pure enough to meet that test.

You know, if the normies don't come out and vote, guess what you get? Lunatics.

And it's not for lack of asking or presenting the option for them.

So there's going to have to be, I think, on that side of what traditionally has been the winning coalition, the non-NDP winning coalition, there's going to have to be some coming together.

And it's more than just people who were participating in the last conservative leadership race.

But the fact is, is they understand that this is a difficult time and we have to stand together as Canadians.

Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair, who's now a political commentator on CTV, echoing the same sentiments.

Kudos to the prime minister for doing what he's doing these days.

We need to stand up.

Conservative MP Michael Cooper is skeptical.

So too is NDP MP Don Davies.

It's an appalling attack on labor.

Who's concerned the proposed legislation could make it easier for Ottawa to end strikes, a claim the federal government denies.

It's very controversial.

A lot of unions, the NDP as well, is going to be very critical of this because it kind of puts more conditions on the government, on the labor minister to be ready to invoke that section.

But what it sends in terms of message is, look, if you don't come to an agreement, you know, in talking to both business and labor, saying if you don't come to an agreement in a collective bargaining agreement context, we're going to intervene.

This is

And guess what? That's a recipe for failure.

Tasha, I just wonder, as I'm watching this press conference out of the corner of my eye of Avi Lewis, is he helping himself or hurting himself, given that, I mean, Is there an opportunity with all of the liberals who are upset about climate change and some of the social issues? Because it just doesn't seem to be making any strides for the NDP.

Yeah, they're up three points in aggregate polling since Lewis took office.

But curiously, the Conservatives are down by the same number.

And I'm wondering if the NDP is actually picking off some of the Labour and Union vote that the Conservatives had pulled to them over issues like affordability in the previous election.

And those people are, you know, they're looking for a champion and left-wing populism can be just as attractive as right-wing populism to many people.

And that's what Lewis is selling.

It's very hard left stuff that he's talking about, similar to what the Democrats, some of them are talking about in the U.S. too.

And the list goes on and on.

And so my point is, in a world where we are receiving more provincial and federal transfers than ever before, I really can't reconcile the fact that the tax bill has gone through the roof, highest ever, other than the fact that, you know, Olivia Chow is very much an NDP mayor.

So, I mean, those make us all mad and they're irritants and they're wasteful and all those things.

So legitimate.

I'm a teacher and I am absolutely incensed by my union telling me who to vote for or making suggestions that we vote for this candidate or that to try to eliminate somebody.

I can't stand the idea that The public would think of me as some kind of rabid left-wing activist when most of us are nothing of the sort.

And I wouldn't vote NDP if my life depended on it.

Brad, you raise such a good point because I was focusing in on the police union because I do think when police officers are given the responsibility that they have in our society, not to be too philosophical here, but I do think that in particular, having them get involved in politics is inappropriate.

What do you think are the politics of this, depending on what we get this afternoon? As I said, the Carney Liberals have done a pretty good job of appealing to people on the right of the spectrum.

I mean, is this a problem for them? Does it give something meaty for Avi Lewis and the New Democrats to grab hold of? I mean...

How do you think this cuts if they were to go sort of to your second set of solution suggestions?

Well, it takes us all the way back, Deb, to 1995 and the Common Sense Revolution with Mike Harris here in Ontario when, you know, that government decided to swing the pendulum back and to restore stability and fairness into the Labor Relations Act.