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NDP leadership candidates look to break out from the pack as final debate approaches

Rob Ashton proposes a national public transit plan with $2 billion annual funding to subsidize fares and improve infrastructure, including high-speed rail and expanding the Port of Churchill, along with adopting proportional representation decided by a citizens' assembly and reducing reliance on U.S. defense technology.
Tanille Johnston centers her agenda on reconciliation with investments in First Nations infrastructure, eliminating boil water advisories, introducing a guaranteed basic income, and raising corporate and capital gains taxes.
Avi Lewis advocates for a wealth tax on individuals with over $10 million, ending fossil fuel subsidies, reinstating a digital services tax, and proposing regulations on AI and protections for human interaction in federal services.
Heather McPherson focuses on rebuilding the party with enhanced regional support, promoting a green economy, funding climate disaster infrastructure, enforcing pollution pricing, and ending oil and gas subsidies.

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NDP leadership candidates look to break out from the pack as final debate approaches

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Five NDP leadership candidates have five weeks to go

Monday February 16, 2026 | VICTORIA, BC [Posted at 2:15 pm PDT] Editorial political analysis | by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends The second debate in Canada’s NDP 2026 Leadership Race is coming up Thursday, February 19 at 5 pm PT (in the Vancouver Lower Mainland area). Debates are undertaken as an opportunity […] The post Five NDP leadership candidates have five weeks to go appeared first on Island Social Trends.

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