Ontario Liberals, NDP dangle differing platforms to same pool of voters [Video]

Some Ontario voters who consider themselves politically non-aligned — setting aside their desire to boot Doug Ford and his PC government out of office — often bemoan the unwillingness of the Liberals and NDP to co-operate at election time. 

Those voters underestimate how much animosity there is between the Liberal and NDP campaigns. 

“Liberals and New Democrats have a far more bitter rivalry than Liberals and Conservatives because we’re competing for the same voter pool,” says Dan Moulton, a partner at Crestview Strategy and a part-time adviser to Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie’s campaign. 

“There are certain values that progressive voters have that they don’t always see reflected in the governing style of the Liberal Party,” says Kim Wright, founder of Wright Strategies and a part-time adviser to NDP Leader Marit Stiles’s campaign. 

United only by their desire to defeat the Progressive Conservatives, the differences between Stiles’ New Democrats and Crombie’s …