Oi!
NDP Picks Ex-Liberal Minister as Federal Party Leader
Excerpt from: NDP Picks Ex-Liberal Minister as Federal Party Leader
By Keith Jones - WSWS Although the [New Democratic Party] long ago shredded its reformist program, embracing “fiscal responsibility” and corporate tax cuts and supporting Canada’s participation in US-led imperialist wars, Mulcair spent much of the campaign, arguing that the NDP needs to move toward the “center” and disparaging NDP policies and rhetoric as half-century-old “boilerplate”...[T]here is no question that the election of Mulcair represents a further shift to the right. It is a public avowal that the NDP is a big business party, akin to the Democrats in the...Published By: Resist!ca - Tuesday, 27 March, 2012