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NDP taking the scenic route

Good afternoon. I’m a senior reporter with the CBC News Parliamentary bureau currently covering the NDP campaign.

We’re in for a long ride on the NDP bus today. The campaign just left Montreal en route to Toronto, and we have a six-hour-plus drive ahead of us. That’s a lot of time to spend on the road when New Democrats are behind in the polls — almost a whole day on the road instead of campaigning.

I asked NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh whether spending so much time on the road was the right move. Why not fly? (The party has secured a plane for this campaign, but it won’t get used in the first week.)

“I want folks to know, wherever you are, whether you’re in Toronto, whether you’re in Montreal, East Coast, West Coast, north or south, you were better off when you’ve got a New Democrat fighting for you,” …