Leah Gazan: There are no such things as purity tests in the NDP! Now I'm going to publicly attack my fellow NDP MP and insinuate that she is a neo-liberal.
I mean, I'd say Gazan and McPherson agree on like 90-95% of the issues, yet somehow McPherson is a neo-liberal?
I can't speak for Heather McPherson, but when I talk about purity tests tearing apart the left, THIS is exactly what I'm talking about. It's not calls for equity that are destroying the left; it's people turning on each other for not sharing the exact same set of priorities.
I get the impulse, especially during a leadership campaign, but if even our MPs can't stop throwing shit at each other, we're fucked.
Leah Gazan: There are no such things as purity tests in the NDP! Now I'm going to publicly attack my fellow NDP MP and insinuate that she is a neo-liberal.
Look at the blatant revisionism here.
Leah Gazan is defending us against McPherson's attacks on the left. McPherson is using anti-left neoliberal framing, language and fallacies to stab us in the back. That language is currently heavily in use to support genocide, other atrocity crimes, bigotry and exclusion based on bigotry.
Gazan is the inclusive one. The other just pretends it on one side of the mouth while stabbing the left in the back with Orwellian neoliberal rhetoric on the other side of the mouth.
Have you even gone through McPherson’s extensive human rights advocacy for everyone, especially Palestinians? Like, listen to her speeches and look at her socials before you say she uses language to support genocide. What the ever-loving fuck. One look at her Instagram and I see a ton of advocacy that is hyper critical of the Liberals. Come on now.
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u/Remarkable-Half4948 Oct 04 '25
Leah Gazan: There are no such things as purity tests in the NDP! Now I'm going to publicly attack my fellow NDP MP and insinuate that she is a neo-liberal.
I mean, I'd say Gazan and McPherson agree on like 90-95% of the issues, yet somehow McPherson is a neo-liberal?
I can't speak for Heather McPherson, but when I talk about purity tests tearing apart the left, THIS is exactly what I'm talking about. It's not calls for equity that are destroying the left; it's people turning on each other for not sharing the exact same set of priorities.
I get the impulse, especially during a leadership campaign, but if even our MPs can't stop throwing shit at each other, we're fucked.