John Ivison: Why the NDP is losing the blue-collar vote to conservatives

MONTREAL — Striking day-care workers gave local NDP candidates a noisy welcome when they showed up with coffee and doughnuts at a picket line on a chilly Wednesday morning. Workers, who are in a pay dispute with Quebec’s ministry of families, chanted “Solidarité,” banged drums and waved rattles. Supportive parents squeezed their kids back into snowsuits amid flurries and falling temperatures, about five minutes before they needed to go pee (it is an immutable rule