NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is touring Atlantic Canada in an effort to highlight affordability issues -- and flip two Liberal seats in the next federal election.
Singh said voters who are increasingly struggling with the cost of living are dissatisfied with the federal government, while selling his party as the true caretaker of working-class Canadians.
"I want to be the one calling the shots and make sure that decisions are made in the interests of working people." A third constituency, St. John's South-Mount Pearl, has also been known to elect New Democrats. But Turnbull said it's unlikely Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan will be unseated anytime soon.
Both Singh and Poilievre have tapped into that sentiment, taking tours in the region over the summer and trying to pitch ideas for how to make people's lives more affordable. Last month, the Council of Atlantic Premiers launched a campaign asking that the federal government rethink the regulations, a view Poilievre shares.
Turnbull said Harper would use disparaging language to refer to the Atlantic regions, like calling them have-not provinces, economically depressed and exhibiting a culture of defeat.Melanie Richer, a former director of communications for the federal New Democrats, said a challenge in the coming months will be for the NDP to remind people of Harper conservatism, and of the fact Poilievre served in his cabinet.
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