Chantal Hébert: Liberals´ byelection wins signal problems for Singh and Scheer
(The Star Golf)

MONTREAL—On the morning after his party endured a quadruple byelection beating, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had this to offer on Twitter: “Each and every one of us has an inherent self worth. Nurture and grow it. Give it time and love. Build a courageous belief in your own self worth and you will have the strength to overcome any challenge you face.�Whether a dose of social media philosophy will provide much solace to a party that has endured diminishing returns since it elected its latest leader is an open question.The only saving grace for the NDP on Monday was that Singh took a pass on trying to enter the House of Commons via one of the ridings in play, thus avoiding an even more personal defeat.Read more: Liberal Jean Yip declares victory in Scarborough-Agincourt byelectionOpinion: Singh does not need a seat in CommonsLiberal MPs to blitz home ridings in campaign to spread accomplishmentsThe downside is that if he wanted to reverse his initial decision to stay out of the House until the 2019 election — possibly because his absence from the parliamentary stage has made him virtually invisible on the national radar — he could be hard-pressed to find a reasonably safe place to run.It is increasingly fair to ask just how many safe New-Democrats seats there are left in the country.None of the federal ridings in contention this fall was a promising one for the NDP. But Scarborough-Agincourt should have been within the sphere of influence of its rookie leader.Scarborough is Singh’s birthplace, and his former provincial seat was in the GTA. As recently as 2011 the NDP won a riding whose territory is now part of Scarborough-Agincourt with 40 per cent of the vote.Six years and two leaders later there is barely a trace left of the party’s former strength.On Monday, the New Democrats barely took 5 per cent of the vote in Scarborough-Agincourt, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Bonavista-Burin-Trinity and B.C.’s South Surrey&# ...