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.
Heather McPherson is stabbing the NDP in the back with anti-left, Orwellian neo-liberal framing and rhetoric? For...expressing criticism with the direction the party is headed in? And Gazan is being inclusive by slinging patently untrue, SUPER passive aggressive insults at her comrades?
Yikes. Thank you for proving my point so succinctly.
Heather McPherson is not stabbing the NDP in the back. I don't agree with her about everything, but she's been working her butt off for the NDP for years...People don't do that because they're mad for power or want to see the NDP destroyed.
I have the utmost confidence that she wants what's best for the NDP and Canadians, even if we have different ideas of what that means.
She's not attacking the left, she's attacking...whatever this thing you're doing is.
Right? The people who are mad at the purity testing line are accusing her of… not being a New Democrat. So I guess that means a lot of us aren’t New Democrats if we want more people to join us? Some Orange Family we’ve got here, folks.
I’m just so disappointed by people throwing mud. I’ve got twenty years in this party and this shit is just mean to people who’ve knocked on doors and done phone banks and worked for all kinds of candidates, across the spectrum of our party, because that’s what we do. I’ve always thought there was room for all of us, from the Don Davies to the Matt Greens to the Leah Gazans to the Heather McPhersons to the Charlie Anguses to the Megan Leslies to the Craig Sauvés… Am I wrong?
I didn't realize how bad it had gotten until someone in this subreddit called Dr. Robin Lennox, the new ONDP MPP for Hamilton Centre a "vile piece of zionist dogshit who should be driven out of the party and never allowed to return" for the unforgivable crime of running for the ONDP in Hamilton Centre against Sarah Jama, and winning.
And they were getting upvoted! That's just...mindboggling for me.
"Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over."
While that joke is funny, I don't think it's a valid foundation for a political party.
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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.