NDP membership increase not as great as you might think

Ignatieff was the best Liberal leader the NDP ever had.

Eventually reality will set in. The NDP surge has more to do with Michael Ignatieff and the fall of the Bloc than anything Jack Layton did.

More than half of their seats are in Quebec where they elected NDP candidates who didn't even campaign, and in some cases lived far away fromthe ridings they now represent. Do you think that this makes for a loyal NDP following?

Bottom line is that if the Liberal party ever gets their act together then the NDP's 15 minutes will be done.

Here's a thought, maybe we should get rid of party politics here in Canada, because so far every party thats been in power has bent us over, look at mess they made, their all to blame, ones no better, than the other.

the insanity of the takers. they want that good old one party social democracy..they want to enslave us all.

@ Gary: "The generally right wing media" ??? What have you been smoking??? You think the Fiberal cheer-leading teams CBC, Global or CTV are right wing??? Ya gotta put the crack pipe away bud. Even the most politically illiterate out there knows the "Big 3" media groups in Canada are hardly to be considered right wing or even centrist for that matter. Sun news is right wing, but they admit it unlike the 3 other aforementioned stations who claim to be unbiased which is an insult to our intelligence to being with. Actually watch anyone of them and you'll see rather quickly where their loyalties lie.

They will be back in # 3 position in the next election. They made big inroads in Quebec because they were fed up with the PQ; but they are fussy and finicky and will toss out the NDP. Remember they elected people from the NDP who they did not know; and alot of the NDP candidates did not even bother to show up in their ridings for the election; go figure.

Press #1 for english, #2 for french, #3 if you cant understand this message in either langauges, but understand the words welfare and money.

The NDP was once a great political party, with great leaders. Unfortunately nowadays i think they would bankrupt Canada similar to Greece if they had the reins long enough.The world doesn't run on lollipops and rainbows.

beating up Nonunionized low income workers is wearing thin with the public; the ndp is due thats whats fueling ndp revival..

Going from 1 to 2 is a 100% increase, but not a big increase!

"Canadians are turning to New Democrats in record amounts in order to defeat Stephen Harper and elect a Prime Minister for all Canadians." So 45,000 people is a record number???? I can find more at the Calgary oil show that hate Liberals and NDP's in one day!!!!!!

The NDP are only what they are today because of the Jack Layton influence. I predict that the party without Layton will quickly fall back to where it was pre-Layton, particularly in Quebec.

check out canada awareness on harper - you will be in for a shock

Union is no different from greedy Corporate billionaires. You have to pay protection fee.

membership numbers do not mean a thing at all the numbers that come out to vote on election day does.
you can have the largest numbers of membership in Canada but if they do not vote on election day and vote for your party it does not matter.
just ask the Liberals as in the last election they did have the largest membership of all the party's and fell to 3rd.

mostly new canadians looking for the streets paved with gold.

it was not the NDP that people voted for it was JACK LAYTON. without Jack Layton the NDP are not nearly as good.

So is it true that Yahoo has landed the contract as the new PR firm representing the conservative party in Canada?

Avoid any place where Bob Rae was.

The party that Jack built is going to fall to pieces, all because there is no one of his calibre in the NDP to replace him. I would like to see how many of the new sign ups will actually renew thier membership.