Someone posted a link to an interesting article yesterday, from January of this year. At the time the NDP were third in the polls and going nowhere, so the party met in the Conservative caucus room, to discuss strategy. Tom Mulcair is trying to turn around the NDP’s flagging fortunes
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper Dance to the Beat of a Shared Drummer
Tom Mulcair is trying to turn around the NDP’s flagging fortunes as he gears up for a federal election within nine months, shaking up his office and campaign team and stepping up his attacks on Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
And he contrasted that with Trudeau’s upbringing, implying that the Liberal leader was born into privilege as the eldest son of a former prime minister and believes “he can just inherit power without proposing a thing.”
“Whether it’s meeting with premiers to work on the future of our federation or with world leaders to discuss global economic opportunities or terrorist threats, being prime minister is not an entry-level job,” Mulcair said.
Revealingly, they all look backwards to 1990s Britain and to Tony Blair’s so-called “New Labour” as the appropriate recipe for a Mulcair-led NDP …
No statement has struck me as more contemporary and forward-looking than Brian Topp’s unhesitant and courageous answer to a media question on Palestine’s bid for a UN seat when he launched his own NDP leadership campaign: “We want Canada to vote with the rest of the world.”
Mulcair’s ultra-Zionist position on Palestine and the Middle East would never countenance such a possibility. On this issue, he remains solidly entrenched in his bunker with Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman (and their friend Tony Blair, the Quartet’s very ineffectual special Mid-East envoy), while the entire Middle East is changing as people demand a future of social and economic justice and democratic participation.
Information on individual donors to Canada’s political parties, and to the NDP leadership candidates, is made publicly available at the Elections Canada website. Mulcair’s donor list is of particular interest, since he is a perceived frontrunner and because some have speculated that he would aim to move the NDP further to the right of the political spectrum, given that he was a Liberal cabinet minister in a right-wing Quebec provincial government.
What I found out about Mulcair’s donors should be of interest to NDP members and to everyone watching and covering this leadership race …
“L’Esperance also revealed in testimony that Thomas Mulcair, who resigned from Charest’s cabinet, saying he disagreed with plans to sell off the mountain, assured him last fall the government would approve his plan to build condos on 85 hectares of park land.
“It was definitely confirmed to me several times,” he told reporters. “Once by himself (Mulcair) and other times by his representatives.”
L’Esperance said that, on the strength of assurances from Alain Gaul, then Mulcair’s chief of staff, that “You have a project. Go ahead and prepare your winter season,” Mont-Orford invested another $1.5 million to $2 million for the 2005-2006 ski season.
Questioned by Mulcair, L’Esperance admitted Mulcair, at the time environment minister, raised the issue that the sale of provincial park land was illegal.”
Witnesses at National Assembly hearings are rarely sworn in but, at the request of the Parti Quebecois opposition, L’Esperance took an oath, swearing to tell the truth, before he testified.
“However, according to the Canadian Press, Mulcair had indeed approved the project Monday. The proposal would have been accepted ten days prior to the redesign of 27 February.”
“Mulcair had indeed approved the project Monday.” Ten days before he resigned after being demoted.
Now that we know that we are not only fighting two right-wingers, but also the Canadian media, we have to be diligent. Own the comments sections to set the record straight. Go after those in the media who refuse to be honest with us and out them.
Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper Dance to the Beat of a Shared Drummer
Someone posted a link to an interesting article yesterday, from January of this year. At the time the NDP were third in the polls and going nowhere, so the party met in the Conservative caucus room, to discuss strategy. Tom Mulcair is trying to turn around the NDP’s flagging fortunes
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