When they stopped acting and speaking like them. It's not an issue of policy, but ones of community, identity, and trust.
The NDP is really bad at showing different parts of the electorate the side that speaks to them. Rural blue collar folks keep seeing talking points about urban student issues, people struggling with mortgage payments keep hearing talk about landlords. They keep talking about spending money on "everybody else", and give working class people the feeling that they are the ones who will have to pay for it, even now as they feel more squeezed than ever.
Plus, everyone looks so damn prim and proper and lawyery.
The conservatives at least speak to their frustrations and anger. They offer a conduit for it, and a sense of catharsis, even if they have no interest in solving the problem. The conservatives feel better to side with. They don't just tell them that they are right to feel angry, they make them feel safe to feel angry.
The NDP doesn't do that. The NDP makes them feel judged for feeling angry, even while the party tells them that their anger makes sense.
Fiscal conservatives are never and have never been "fiscally conservative". Rather than being conscious of and considerate about how they spend our communal resources, they have always just believed that there should be no communal resources, and the rich should get to run roughshod over us all.
Trump, and many of his supporters, think that America is China's biggest client. They're totally blind to the idea that China is China's biggest client, and that it's not even close.
Their total lack of understanding of the world outside their little exceptionalist bubble is hilarious and depressing
Then leave. You've contributed nothing but vitriol, and without explanation. You seem to have no gripe, yet desperately want to gripe. Why don't you do that somewhere you find more entertaining?
The NDP really doesn't have a leg to stand on, let alone to throw their weight around. If they topple the government and force another election anytime soon, the electorate will absolutely stomp on them.
When faced with an existential threat, humans do not do the foundational things that prevent those threats from returning. They tackle the facade. Trying to be threatening to stability while everyone feels so deeply threatened and unstable is more likely to destroy the party than to accomplish anything, no matter how good an idea they may want to push.
Plus, the BQ has already thrown their support behind Carney.
The NDP needs to get their house in order, and actually build support by being active members of the community again, and not just the milquetoast social democrat political party with no media outlet backing them.
Unpopular opinion, I know, but downvotes are an anti-feature, designed to excuse big, for-profit social media from actually moderating their platforms. They have no place in real social spaces.
And there will be no appetite for anything that looks like the NDP doing anything but nodding along for the next few years.
It doesn't matter what the nature of politics is. The public doesn't care.
The public will punish the NDP even further if it threatens the govenment, then the CPC will win. If they want to hurt the country right now for the sake of an agenda they haven't run on in years, it will be the end of the party for a generation.
Edit: I'm genuinely shocked y'all silently and passive-aggressively think the NDP has any kind of mandate to take down the government over anything, let alone a policy they've all but abandoned years ago.
Y'all would rather the Cons rule than accept that nobody ran on electoral reform. Ridiculous.
Well, it's hard to argue with someone with good opinions on cheese.