Less confusing in some ways: there's only the one election, for your MP, not separate elections for President and Senator and Representative, and there's no primary either. More confusing in that there's multiple viable parties, so the rubric of "vote for the most progressive candidate with a chance of winning" can get tricky.
And yeah, it's about as good as it was going to get. The 2011 election was better for the NDP: the Bloc utterly collapsed, most of its seats went orange, and a bunch of other seats flipped to the NDP as well. But then the super-charismatic NDP leader died of cancer shortly after and the guy they brought in to replace him was just awful. Jagmeet Singh, the current NDP leader, is fantastic and engaging but FOR SOME TOTALLY INEXPLICABLE REASON he just hasn't been able to make inroads in racist-af Quebec, or much of slightly-less-racist anywhere else in Canada. So, barring a replay of the good parts of 2011, "Liberal minority supported by the NDP" is the best of a bunch of potentially really bad options.
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And yeah, it's about as good as it was going to get. The 2011 election was better for the NDP: the Bloc utterly collapsed, most of its seats went orange, and a bunch of other seats flipped to the NDP as well. But then the super-charismatic NDP leader died of cancer shortly after and the guy they brought in to replace him was just awful. Jagmeet Singh, the current NDP leader, is fantastic and engaging but FOR SOME TOTALLY INEXPLICABLE REASON he just hasn't been able to make inroads in racist-af Quebec, or much of slightly-less-racist anywhere else in Canada. So, barring a replay of the good parts of 2011, "Liberal minority supported by the NDP" is the best of a bunch of potentially really bad options.