Thomas Mulcair wants to become leader of the NDP. He also wants to become prime minister of Canada. But there is a little problem. Mulcair holds dual citizenship – French and Canadian. Should you become prime minister of one country when you owe allegiance to another. To become the citizen of another country is automatically [...]
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SHOULD MULCAIR DROP HIS FRENCH CITIZENSHIP?
January 20, 2012SHOULD THERE BE A BY-ELECTION?
January 11, 2012Lise St-Denis, the NDP member for Shawinigan, has stunned her colleagues by defecting to the Liberals. Of those who elected her, St-Denis, says “They voted for Jack Layton. Jack Layton is dead.” The relative speed with which Ms St-Denis decided to bolt the party shook up Ottawa, especially since she spent about a decade as [...]
SHOULD MULCAIR RUN?
October 13, 2011Sometime today Thomas Mulcair will announce whether he will run for the NDP leadership. If he decides not to run, the air will go out of the leadership race and Brian Topp will win in a walk. This will deprive the NDP of an exciting race in which to sign up new members. But if [...]
SHOULD THE NDP AND THE LIBERALS MERGE?
August 30, 2011Just a few days after Jack Layton’s funeral, new merger talk has broken out between the NDP and the Liberals. On his flight home from the funeral, former prime minister Jean Chretien boasted to a journalist that his plans for a Liberal-NDP merger would have stopped the Conservatives from taking power this year. Denis Coderre [...]
CAN THE NDP SURVIVE THE LOSS OF JACK LAYTON?
August 23, 2011In his last letter to his party, Jack Layton advised them to make haste choosing a new leader who should be in place early in the New Year in plenty of time for the next election. Jack was the smost credible and charismatic leader for the Canadian Left. Is they anyone who can take his [...]
DID JACK LAYTON LEAVE A POLITICAL LEGACY?
August 22, 2011NDP leader Jack Layton dies this morning from cancer at the age of 61. Just a few months after leading the NDP to its greatest victory in federal politics, le bon Jack had the fruits of that victory suddenly snatched from him by death. Did Jack Layton leave a political legacy. Did he change the [...]
SHOULD NDP LEADER, TURMEL, STEP DOWN?
August 3, 2011It is now clear that NDP interim-leader, Nycole Turmel, was a member of two separatist parties, the Bloc which she left only in January of this year and Quebec Solidaire, of which she is still a member. Turmel, a former labour leader, explains that she identified with the social democratic aims of these parties but [...]
IS 50 PER CENT-PLUS-ONE ENOUGH FOR QUEBEC SEPARATION.?
May 27, 2011Almost half the NDP caucus in Ottawa comes from Quebec. There is no doubt there are some sovereignists in this group. Which is why NDP leader, Jack Layton, is struggling to clarify his position on Quebec’s separation from Canada. After several false starts Mr. Layton has fallen back on the NDP’s Sherbrooke Declaration of some [...]
WOULD A COALITION WORK?
March 27, 2011For those Canadian voters who want to defeat Harper (and their numbers are legion) there is another way to go. Here is the situation: The election on May 2 brings back yet another minority conservative government – say 145 seats 10 short of a majority. The House assembles and Harper is presently defeated on a [...]
DOES IGNATIEFF HAVE A CHANCE?
March 26, 2011As I see it those Canadians who want to get rid of Harper (and they are legion) have only one choice: vote Liberal. It will do them no good to vote Bloc which only runs candidates in Quebec; it will do them no good to vote NDP which will get only about 16 per cent [...]
