New Democratic leader Tom Mulcair has been resoundingly rejected by his party. The NDP leader received less than 50 percent of the votes in a convention motion at its annual gathering in Edmonton Sunday and said merely that he will stay on as leader until a leadership convention is organized. According to Canadian Press, it is the first time in living memory that a party leader of any political stripe has received less than 50 percent of delegate support. CP says that a stunned silence fell over the convention floor at Shaw Conference Centre as delegates realized that not only had Mulcair not attained a respectable level of support, he hadn’t even reached the 50-per-cent threshold. Canadian Press Twitter Chantal Hebert
