Thanks for the context.

What happened if I may ask?

Alberta also produces a ton of cement for concrete. Like, a surprising amount of cement.

Centrists like to think there is no appreciable portion of the population to the left of them. The party leadership needs to change and move back to their roots

I agree, there should've been a leadership review. There is significant discontent within the party's base.

If the liberals main concern was defeating the tories they would pass electoral reform to mitigate the issues of a split base of support. Instead they would rather limit the influence of alternatives to them to use the threat of the tories as a cudgel. The liberals won't move from their position.

In addition, if the current dynamic didn't benefit the liberals and their centrist position they would have followed through with the promise of electoral reform. A consolidation of the NDP and Liberals will only result in the liberals policy line going through. Continued....

The watering down of progressive policies that the NDP does to get the liberals to pass it ultimately undermines what they're trying to do and brings down people's enthusiasm with the NDP. They get stuck with the distaste of liberal centrist policy and it further reinforces the tory rubberbanding.

People don't automatically pick a party because it's marginally less bad than the alternative. If the lesser-evil choice doesn't represent the voter to a sufficient extend to compromise with they will either split into a new party or just stay home.

To further clarify, it would complete the move of the NDP from left-wing to centre-left, to centrists. Any left-wing spin the liberals get would be temporary and muted. The dialogue/overton window will just shift further right. Which serves to normalize tory talking points.

No, I think it would further disillusion any left-wing base the NDP currently has under the guise of lesser evil voting. You'll end up with the same dynamic as the states has where the Republicans push things significantly right and the Democrats only overturn some of that while power passes between

I disagree, I'd rather not move the federal political landscape even further right. The NDP needs to stop chasing the centre and actually distinguish itself as something other than progressive liberals. Consolidating under a banner of compromise against conservatives would ratchet things right.