EDMONTON — More than 1,500 NDP faithful are gathering in Edmonton today to spend the next three days sifting the ashes of last year’s ballot-box disaster – and to confront the man many blame for it.
Tom Mulcair won’t address the New Democrat convention until Sunday, when rank-and-file members will pass judgment on his leadership. But he will be on everyone’s mind all the same.
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Canadian Labour Congress president Hassan Yussuff, who has publicly declared he believes it’s time for a new leader, will address the gathering later today.
NDP President Rebecca Blaikie, the head of a working group that explored what went so wrong in last fall’s federal election, will also hear feedback from the convention floor and discuss her panel’s post-mortem findings.
Despite high hopes of forming Canada’s first NDP government prior to the start of last year’s 11-week campaign, voters ultimately slashed the party’s caucus to just 44 seats, reducing it to third-party status in the Commons.
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It remains an open question whether Mulcair will stay or go after Sunday’s leadership review.
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