A former Liberal Party president and a former longtime Liberal MP say the party has veered too far to the left and alienated many veteran Liberals. Six-term Liberal MP Dan McTeague sat in the House of Commons representing southern Ontario ridings from 1993 to 2011, and was active in the party going back to the late 1970s. But McTeague says that his former party is now Liberal in name only. “This is the NDP on steroids … a party that has outflanked the NDP itself, has pretty much stolen the talking points of the Greens, created a coalition on the far left,” he said in an interview. Stephen LeDrew, who directed John Turner’s campaign tour in his successful bid to succeed Pierre Trudeau as party leader and prime minister in 1984 and was president of the Liberal Party from 1998 to 2003, also laments the party’s turn to the left. “It …