TORONTO – NDP MP Thomas Mulcair took the reigns of the New Democrats Saturday, winning a seven month leadership race for the party’s top spot.
Mulcair succeeds the late Jack Layton, who led the party to its most successful election in 2011 when it garnered 103 seats – more than double its previous high – and formed the Official Opposition. He was leader fronm 2003 until his untimely death in 2011.
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