The NDP To Renounce Socialism?

According to Warren Kinsella's merger affidavit, the terms of the NDP-Liberal merger demands the NDP renounce socialism and accept Ignatieff as their leader. So now the NDP is going to renounce socialism? Good luck with that guys. There are a number of NDP policy positions that are unpalatable to the mainstream that will have to be dropped in order to campaign on common coalition policy that I sincerely doubt the NDP will ever drop. Their core constituency are labour unions and people who want a bigger handout from government. Most Canadians have jobs and want lower taxes that are only possible with less socialism. There is a fine line between a social safety net and a spider web, and the NDP are on the other side of it.

Will the NDP ever renounce socialism? I sincerely doubt it. I'm sure some of their union members who make good money don't like subsidizing welfare for lazy people, but with so many in their base being the lazy people who want handouts, they risk splitting in two if they drop the socialism. Meanwhile I haven't heard anything from Elizabeth May in the past few days on this merger subject, but she has to be chomping at the bit to absorb the disaffected socialists who would abandon the NDP if they merged with Liberals.