It is typically quite difficult to get media coverage as a new outsider party in Canadian politics due to niche appeal early on, but despite the New Blue Party of Ontario only being a bit more than a year old it is polling similarly to the Green Party, has a popular MPP running for reelection, and has a full slate of candidates contesting the 2022 provincial election.
Although one would assume a party that is polling up to 5 percent (in polls they are included in) and “Other” polling indicating New Blue has strength in Southwest and Southern Ontario, the legacy media does not think they are worth hearing from at the leaders’ debates.
