Knock it off, Tom, it wasn’t the niqab

I am a long-time member of the NDP but not, I’m afraid, a member of the Tom Mulcair fan club. I didn’t support his election to leader primarily because I’ve never believed he is a committed social democrat. He seems more of an opportunistic liberal, about as left-wing as Tony Blair. (Oddly, the leading socialist in North America these days is an American.)

Nonetheless, Mulcair wants very much to