Dearly Committed
The New Democratic Party, having brought Quebec - at least temporarily - aboard their ship, is now in the process of selecting nominees to contest for the leadership, the post bare after the untimely death of former leader Jack Layton. And a dilemma confronts the issue. The NDP succeeded to Official Opposition status, thanks to the collapse of the Liberal Party and the majority success of the Conservatives.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the May general election; Quebec voters suddenly found themselves oddly enraptured by the NDP, and they dismissed the Bloc Quebecois, overlooked the Conservatives and hardly noticed their usual federal-provincial Liberal bias. The question now is how to nurture that francophone popularity that sprang them into parliamentary prominence?
Particularly in light of the fact that all too soon Quebecers appear to have experienced a sense of ennui over the NDP, and the party appears to have lost the sheen of its election-time popularity. How to restore that interest among jaded Quebec voters?
The best way to continue encouraging Quebec to vote overwhelmingly for the NDP on the national scene might seem to be to bring aboard a Quebec-based candidate. Enter Thomas Mulcair. Committed to the future of the party; for after having tiptoed through the provincial Liberal Party, and prominence in the National Assembly, he cast his lot with the NDP.
He cast his political lot with the NDP, seeing no particular need to cast his money in their direction as well, evidently. "I understand that all New Democrat Members of Parliament are required to contribute $1000 annually to the Federal Office of the New Democratic Party", reads a clause in an NDP party agreement that all members are obliged to sign.
The NDP recommends and anticipates that all its Members of Parliament will spare $1,100 out of their $155,000 annual salary. To further the interests of the party. And to encourage the party's supporters in the wide public to do likewise. How would it look after all, if the primary lawmakers elected to office in the name of the NDP expect others to furnish the party's wherewithal and not they?
Yet Thomas Mulcair appears not to have respected his party's ruling on that issue. All others may comply, but not he.
He explained that, although according to Elections Canada he made no contributions whatever to the party in the past three years, he did benefit his riding association with three donations over three years, totalling $1,266, and in addition magnanimously paid for his own parking, coffee, dry-cleaning, travel expenses, etc., during his own election campaigns in 2007 and 2008.
Mr. Mulcair happens also to hold Canadian/French citizenship. In a recent dispute with France over its unlawful activities within Canada with actively trolling French citizens living in Canada for votes in the upcoming French general election, French authorities sought Mr. Mulcair's support and assistance in an attempt to sway Canadian authorities to France's cause.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the May general election; Quebec voters suddenly found themselves oddly enraptured by the NDP, and they dismissed the Bloc Quebecois, overlooked the Conservatives and hardly noticed their usual federal-provincial Liberal bias. The question now is how to nurture that francophone popularity that sprang them into parliamentary prominence?
Particularly in light of the fact that all too soon Quebecers appear to have experienced a sense of ennui over the NDP, and the party appears to have lost the sheen of its election-time popularity. How to restore that interest among jaded Quebec voters?
The best way to continue encouraging Quebec to vote overwhelmingly for the NDP on the national scene might seem to be to bring aboard a Quebec-based candidate. Enter Thomas Mulcair. Committed to the future of the party; for after having tiptoed through the provincial Liberal Party, and prominence in the National Assembly, he cast his lot with the NDP.
He cast his political lot with the NDP, seeing no particular need to cast his money in their direction as well, evidently. "I understand that all New Democrat Members of Parliament are required to contribute $1000 annually to the Federal Office of the New Democratic Party", reads a clause in an NDP party agreement that all members are obliged to sign.
The NDP recommends and anticipates that all its Members of Parliament will spare $1,100 out of their $155,000 annual salary. To further the interests of the party. And to encourage the party's supporters in the wide public to do likewise. How would it look after all, if the primary lawmakers elected to office in the name of the NDP expect others to furnish the party's wherewithal and not they?
Yet Thomas Mulcair appears not to have respected his party's ruling on that issue. All others may comply, but not he.
He explained that, although according to Elections Canada he made no contributions whatever to the party in the past three years, he did benefit his riding association with three donations over three years, totalling $1,266, and in addition magnanimously paid for his own parking, coffee, dry-cleaning, travel expenses, etc., during his own election campaigns in 2007 and 2008.
Mr. Mulcair happens also to hold Canadian/French citizenship. In a recent dispute with France over its unlawful activities within Canada with actively trolling French citizens living in Canada for votes in the upcoming French general election, French authorities sought Mr. Mulcair's support and assistance in an attempt to sway Canadian authorities to France's cause.
Labels: Government of Canada, Politics of Convenience, Quebec
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