Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair tells Canadians not to vote NDP

March 25, 2025 West Coast Outpost

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Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair tells Canadians not to vote NDP

‘If you can’t seriously say you’re going to form a government that can take on Trump, then get out of the way,’ Mulcair wrote

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Published Mar 25, 2025 • 4 minute read

Then-NDP leader Tom Mulcair speaks at a party convention in Dartmouth, N.S., in 2014. Photo by Ted Pritchard/Postmedia/File

After years of bristling at the idea of “vote splitting,” former NDP leader Tom Mulcair has effectively warned NDP supporters not to split the vote in the 2025 election.

In a March 24 op-ed for Bloomberg News, Mulcair warned that the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump is too dire for Canadians to vote for third parties, and that the coming election should be a race “between the Liberals and Conservatives.”

“If you can’t seriously say you’re going to form a government that can take on Trump, then get out of the way and let the only real contenders have at it,” he wrote.Mulcair was leader of the NDP between 2012 and 2017 — a period that saw the party form the Official Opposition against the government of Stephen Harper.

It was also a position in which Mulcair often had to resist charges that a vote for his NDP served only to split the progressive vote to the benefit of the Conservatives.

Mulcair acknowledged as much in his Bloomberg column, writing, “When I was NDP leader I used to bristle when I heard Liberals warn about not ‘splitting the vote.’ It seemed so entitled, as if ‘the’ vote belonged to them.”

According to Mulcair, what’s changed this time is the extraordinary threat from the United States, which he called a “threat to Canada’s existence.”

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