Singh makes Vancouver Island push as NDP faces do-or-die battle in B.C. – BC [Video]

With just one week to go before federal election day, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is blitzing British Columbia.

Singh spent his third consecutive day campaigning in the province, and second straight day on Vancouver Island where one political scientist says the fate of his party may play out.

Of the NDP’s 25 seats at Parliament’s dissolution, more than half were in British Columbia, and include six of the seven seats up for grabs on Vancouver Island.

“This is the do-or-die province for the NDP nationally,” University of Victoria political scientist Michael Prince told Global News.

“Depending on how well they do in Ontario, which is not looking good right now … if he’s going to achieve official party status of 12 seats in the next House of Commons, that’s probably going to be determined here in B.C. and particularly here on Vancouver Island.”

In Comox and Nanaimo on Monday, Singh …