Senator suggests Liberal NDP merger

In federal election news, the Liberal and NDP parties may need to consider merging the centre left, according to one Liberal senator. Sen. Larry Campbell told reporters in Vancouver Tuesday that this may be the only solution to beating conservative leader Stephen Harper.

Campbell said that when the Conservative party merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003, they had little in common. However, he suggested that there is a lot of agreement in the major points of both Liberal and NDP parties.

While sen. Campbell's leader, Michael Ignatieff, calls the Liberal party the only party that can be a governing alternative to Harper,  recent polls show otherwise. A surge in NDP support shows the federal elections have turned into a three-way race. Without a merger, it's unsure if the Liberals can get the majority of the votes cast against Stephen Harper.