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The NDP lastly will get its wings

David Thurton travelling with the NDP right here. We’re about to fly out of Toronto to Ottawa.

That is the primary time Singh’s marketing campaign goes airborne. That’s noteworthy as a result of the primary week of the marketing campaign was actually and figuratively grounded.

The NDP started considerably behind within the polls, and opted to spend all of its first week on a bus. At one level, we travelled between Montreal and Toronto — a six-hour drive.

The marketing campaign spent extra time on the street attending to its subsequent occasion than campaigning. In such a brief election race like this, each second issues.

The marketing campaign schedule picked up steam on Wednesday, whereas on a Hamilton swing. However we by no means visited steelworkers or labour leaders. As an alternative, we visited a seniors’ centre twice and a pizza joint.

Thursday, the day after Donald Trump’s auto-tariff announcement, the marketing campaign workforce appeared to course-correct. It made a last-minute choice to move to Windsor, the automotive capital of Canada.

That call reaped rewards for the get together. Newscasts and web sites featured pictures of Singh together with his sleeves rolled up, assembly union leaders and autoworkers.

There isn’t a doubt the NDP has missed alternatives to seize voters’ consideration in an election the place a lot of the main target gave the impression to be on the Conservatives and the Liberals — nor that they hope issues can solely go up from right here.