I picked Mulcair to win yesterday’s NDP Leadership vote.
How is it that I am always correct?
“You, in the back, with your hand up…what is it?”
Oh yes, I did also say that ‘in the end, common sense would prevail and he’d not get elected’.
“Thank you so much for pointing out that little inconsistency”.
So I hedged my bets…
That said, it was Mulcair’s to lose and in the end, he didn’t. But to me, the big losers in all of this are the NDP itself, and more importantly, Canada.
Permit me to explain:
First let’s look at what the NDP has gained with Mulcair as its new Leader.
Until very recently, Mulcair was a Liberal having served in Jean Charest’s Cabinet in Quebec.
He then toyed with the idea of joining the Tories but finally decided to go with the NDP – a reverse of what Pierre Elliott did, that stalwart Liberal, going from the Dippers to the Libs.
And he so loved his newly adopted Party that he donated not one red cent to its coffers. You cannot put a price on love.
Add to this the fact of his being the only Federal MP who sees 9/11 as an inside job by the USA and its Jewish friends. The guy has astounding insight.
And I haven’t even dealt with his pettiness and quick temper but as you can readily see, the NDP has inherited a real gem.
Now what about Canada?
I mean in addition to inheriting this most principled of men.
Well first off, he is on record as wanting Quebec’s infamous Bill 101 extended to Federal Institutions in that Province. You’ll remember Bill 101 – it is the one that the United Nations called discriminatory and asked for its repeal in that it provides for French Only in our supposed bilingual nation. Bourassa, then Premier, had to use the Not Withstanding Clause to implement and retain it.
Mulcair is also a strong opponent of Alberta’s “dirty oil”. You know – the oil that is paying for Quebec’s outrageous annual Federal Transfer payments. He would be far more principled, if at the same time he was condemning this ‘dirty oil,’ he came out against receiving monies that stemmed from it. Maybe now as Leader he will do just that. (Only kidding)
And, despite the fact that he hails from Quebec, one of his first actions was to install a Quebec Deputy Leader. Redundant, n’est pas?
The greatest danger though, I see here, is that Mulcair is now the Leader of a Party mostly based in Quebec – 58 of its 102 members. The Bloc is coming back to life and I can see that he will do his damnedest to try to out bloc the Bloc. They are his real opponents in Quebec and will be so at the time of the next election; it will be neither the Liberals or the Conservatives.
Okay so his loyalties are split between Quebec and Canada but at least they are confined to the geography of North America resting above the United States.
“What’s that?”
Oh yes, I had forgotten – Mulcair is also a citizen of France.
Oh well how can you criticize someone who is loyal to everyone – to the Liberals, to the Tories, to the NDP, to Quebec, to Canada, to France … the guy just has loyalty to burn.
As I see it..
‘K.D. Galagher’
