Anyway, I feel the whole "conscience" versus "power" is a fake argument. The NDP has policies that it pushes and sometimes achieves decent changes in government policy by doing so. It's done this ever since its formation. Hopefully in pushing these policies, people will elect them to government to enable them to do even more. Currently the NDP are in opposition, and so naturally are in the conscience role again. There's a good article here about that (which I posted in another thread as well - apologies for cross-posting):
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/tom-mulcair-sees-ndp-role-in-ho...