26 March 2012

Macpherson: Mulcair faces a test to unite NDP's English and French wings

Macpherson: Mulcair faces a test to unite NDP's English and French wings

Six days before the New Democratic Party leadership election, a Montreal-based volunteer for candidate Brian Topp gave an early sign on Twitter of a problem in Quebec for whoever would be the NDP’s next leader.
“One of our vols is running 4 the QS nom in Westmount today,” Ethan Cox tweeted, “so we’re releasing most vols to support her.”
That is, at a crucial time in the NDP campaign, the volunteers were being released to help one of them get a provincial nomination for the Quebec solidaire party, which is sovereignist as well as left-wing.

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