The way Peggy Nash fans – and there are many – see it is that she’ll be the compromise candidate. In the NDP leadership race, Brian Topp and Thomas Mulcair will be the front-runners. But their support will be limited because of their negatives. Mr. Topp has the handicap of having no experience as an elected politician, and Mr. Mulcair’s appeal will be limited because of his mercurial, adversarial nature.
In such a scenario, Ms. Nash could benefit from the preferential balloting system and come up the middle. That’s what Alison Redford, the recently crowned ...
OTTAWA—Toronto MP Peggy Nash will launch her campaign to become the next leader of the federal New Democrats on Friday.
Nash was coy Wednesday when asked about her announcement, expected at 9:30 a.m. at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto
“I’ll have comments on that in a few days, not today,” Nash told reporters following the weekly NDP caucus meeting on Parliament Hill. “I think one thing that I am focused on right now is what is happening in the global economy and wanting to do my job as finance critic.”
Nash will have to give up that finance critic post ...
Peggy Nash was born to be underestimated.
She’s a woman who speaks softly and has a sweet sense about her. She winces at the word, but she’s pretty. If she were an actress, she’d be cast as the lady with the lamp bending over a wounded soldier.
No threat here, surely. The MP for Parkdale-High Park and NDP finance critic sits in her Parkdale home with a cat in her lap and looks as if she wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Lana Payne knows different. The president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour has watched her friend grow both as a union activist and crack ...
