The estimable Margaret Wente spins an entertaining view of recent NDP politics. Among other things she says no New Democrat can get elected these days without emphatically repudiating most of what the NDP stood for 20 years ago. “That’s how much times have changed.” But, it is still true that the leaders on the left once in power are most especially the captives of their supporters. Teachers, civil servants, union executives and similar people do not go away between elections. Or do we anticipate a Tony Blair type of revolution from Thomas Mulcair? Not likely, we think. Margaret Wente
