Topp camp takes shot at Mulcair
Backed by new endorsements from a veteran and a rookie member of the federal NDP caucus, party leadership hopeful Brian Topp launched a strike Friday against a potential rival’s weaknesses in English Canada, while arguing that his own campaign was not about personal attacks.
Topp brought out New Brunswick MP Yvon Godin and Montreal MP Alain Giguere for an announcement to demonstrate growing support among New Democrats elected on May 2.
But Topp’s pledge to stay away from personal attacks faltered moments later when Giguere said that potential rival Thomas Mulcair — the party’s deputy leader and Quebec lieutenant, was not capable of leading the NDP to victory outside of Quebec.
Mulcair has not confirmed whether he will enter the race, but has suggested he would face an uphill battle because of the party’s low membership numbers in Quebec, air yeezy where he had served as the provincial environment minister before being elected in a federal byelection in 2007.
“It may be [Stephen] Harper’s and [Ted] Byfield’s shared good luck that the latter was no longer putting out a magazine when the former became Prime Minister,” Paul Wells reportsin Maclean’s, on the celebration of Alberta Report‘s 25th anniversary Edmonton. “That way everyone can skip lightly over the way Harper countenances abortion, same-sex marriage, bilingualism, taxpayer money for Bombardier and other apostasies. Now, at least over dinner, they can claim that Harper’s triumph is a victory for By?eld’s values and ask no more questions.”
The headline of the day graces a Globe and Mail editorial: “Drive the mafia out of Quebec’s construction industry.” Can you imagine a tourist reading that?
The Globe‘s Adam Radwanski makes the case — a little too politely, if you ask us — to blow the current leadership debate model in Ontario elections to smithereens.
And the Edmonton Journal‘s Todd Babiak nearly gets into a fight with a very large, very anti-social fellow who cares not for the basic rules of gym etiquette, and ruminatesinterestingly — if ultimately depressingly — on the eternal problem of bullying. “Books on bullying sell millions of copies but there’s little anyone, Kirkland or a school principal, can do to make it go away,” he concludes. “The man will use the bench press whenever he likes.”
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