Could a Liberal-NDP Merger Actually Happen?

Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

Should the federal Liberals and NDP work even more closely together? Does a merger represent the left's best chance at forming the next federal government? Or are the parties too ideologically-opposed for such a relationship to actually work?

3:30 | Mario Canseco, president of Research Co, takes us into polling on Canada joining the U.S., Conservative support following Trudeau's resignation, and a potential merger between the Liberals and the NDP.

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