Boom Boom wrote "I'm not an NDP historian, so others will have to correct me, but when has the NDP moving left ever resulted in forming government at the federal level?"
It hasn't. But show me one measurement of leftness and a significant inverse correlation with election success, in a depression economy, and I'll buy your argument. Until then, it is unbridled and unmeasured 'speculation' that 'leftness = political failure' for the NDP, especially when the economic hardships we're facing now are 'nothing like' the hardships folks are going to be facing 2-3 years from now after the Tories screw things up and the Euro debocle breaks workers even further.