Is it foreseeable the federal Liberal and New Democrat parties will formally unite before the next federal election and merge as a permanent combined party? The Liberal Democrat Party of Canada perhaps?

(This happened in the U.K. in the 1980's...and in 2003 in Canada as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance merged to form the Conservative Party of Canada.)

Guest: Mario Canseco, president ResearchCo, British Columbia. ResearchCo polled Canadians on the question of a merged federal Liberal/NDP party in October of last year and determined whether a Liberal-NDP merger would hurt the Conservative Party of Canada's pursuit to form national government.

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