NDP has leadership crisis on its hands: Hébert
MONTREAL—As the New Democrats prepare to pronounce on Thomas Mulcair’s leadership, here is a prediction: Regardless of how the NDP leader scores on a confidence vote Sunday, there will be little or no cause for celebration at the party’s gathering in Edmonton. One way or another, most of the delegates will leave the convention with […]
NDP can’t afford a leadership election now, members could support Mulcair at convention to delay one, say New Democrats
A near-empty treasury following the costly 11-week federal election campaign last year could prevent a snap NDP leadership election to replace Tom Mulcair so soon after the Oct. 19 election, party sources have told The Hill Times. Three party activists and a labour union affiliate member said a leadership convention might be held off because […]
NDP: a tale of two parties
OAKVILLE, ONT.—This week an army of demoralized New Democrats will solemnly trudge into Edmonton for a convention they hope will take the form of a massive pep talk. After all, if any party needs pepping it’s the NDP. Ever since the party’s disastrous defeat five months ago in the 2015 federal election, the NDP, consumed […]
NDP convention ‘one for the ages,’ many eager for vote on Mulcair’s leadership
More than 1,500 NDP members will attend the party’s policy convention in Edmonton this week to help shape the NDP’s future. Many are eager to see a review vote on NDP Leader Tom Mulcair’s leadership and there’s much talk about the direction of the party and its “soul,” after its crushing defeat in the last federal election. NDP analyst Ian Capstick […]
NDP members shouldn’t call for leadership race until 2018: Dias
The NDP should hold off calling for a snap leadership election to replace Tom Mulcair next week and bide its time to make a decision at the next scheduled leadership review in 2018, says the head of Canada’s largest private sector union. UNIFOR president Jerry Dias said Friday taking such a major decision would not […]
Politics This Morning: NDP must re-establish itself as driver of political debate in federal politics, says Broadbent
The Liberal Party won the October 2015 election because it went left of the political spectrum, and it did so because the NDP’s popular support is strong, says Ed Broadbent, who will make opening remarks at the Broadbent Institute’s Progress Summit today. “There can be no doubt that for New Democrats the election results were […]
Former MP Leslie ignoring calls to run for NDP leadership
Megan Leslie, the popular former NDP MP who lost her Halifax seat in the 2015 election, says she has settled nicely into her new role with the Canadian division of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Canada) and will not answer the call from some who are urging her to seek the NDP leadership. “Heck no,” […]
Tory MP Hillyer a fighter, passionate advocate, ‘Parliament is better for having had Jim serve it,’ says Ambrose
Alberta Conservative MP Jim Hillyer was a “fighter,” who had a “strong sense of duty” as a parliamentarian, say colleagues. Just 41 years old, he was found dead in his Hill office early Wednesday morning. Police and first responders were on the scene at 6:45 a.m., but the Conservative Party did not confirm the death, […]
Politics This Morning: Ministers fan across country to promote 2016 budget, Ambrose calls it a ‘nightmare scenario’
Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose says the federal government’s 2016 budget is a “nightmare scenario” but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several other ministers will be fanning out across the country to promote it today. Mr. Trudeau will speak about the budget on various media this morning, starting with Radio-Canada’s Les matins d’ici at 7:50 […]
Liberals’ first budget an easy sell to Canadians: Tim Harper
OTTAWA—Welcome to the era of deficits and dreams. Some of the dreams are deferred, but the deficits seem cast in stone. Here’s betting, however, that Canadians will not give much thought to a $29.4-billion deficit that scales down, but does not disappear, during the Liberal mandate. Rookie Finance Minister Bill Morneau has a budget that […]
