Canada’s left is poised for a wipeout

On eve of election day , the NDP average was 9 per cent , meaning the party is at risk of losing most of the 24 seats they held at the dissolution of parliament.

This could be its worst electoral showing since 1993 or, perhaps, ever.

An electoral drubbing for the NDP would not just be devastating for the party, but also bad for the country.

Leader Jagmeet Singh and the NDP forced the Liberal minority government under Justin Trudeau to expand the country’s welfare system.

Whether the NDP ends up with four seats or an even dozen in a majority parliament, they will be a severely diminished, if not decimated force.

In a minority, there is some hope of modest influence, but there is a risk of a repeat of the last go round, which helped deliver the dire straits they find themselves in now.