NDP challenges Liberals to a by-election

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Opposition has challenged the Liberals to a by-election after MP Lise St-Denis announced Tuesday she is switching stripes. Following St-Denis’s declaration, the member for the Quebec riding of Saint-Maurice-Champlain announced she will sit with the third party.

According to NDP Quebec caucus chairman Guy Caron, the decision was just like old-style politics. He said electors in the previous election sought something special.

Caron said: “I really think it’s sad for the electors. Now they are stuck with an MP that is representing a party that got less than 10 per cent in the last election. She turned her back on the values of the party.”

On the other hand, analysts emphasize that NDP has worked hard to be a successful official Opposition after Jack Layton. Previously, St-Denis said bluntly that her voters chose late Layton and that she’s confident they would value her judgment, which in due course is based on their best interest.

“I represent a riding that is part of the genesis of Canada, equally on the cultural and the economical side. The decision I have made is motivated by the challenges that the people of my riding will face,” she said at a news conference.

“These people have been confronted in the last years to difficulties linked to the globalization of national economies. We’ve had prosperous times due to the forestry and paper sectors and we must now make choices that lead us once more to economic success.”

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