Last night on the Daily Brief I asked NDP Leadership candidate Peggy Nash about her fundraising numbers for the the last quarter of 2011. They were pretty good. Her campaign has raised $108,000. But a couple of candidates were, at Dec. 31, a long way back. Niki Ashton’s campaign had raised just $10,000 and Romeo Saganash had raised $18,000. I asked Nash about those numbers as well. Continue reading Peggy Nash on her fundraising numbers
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Liberals, Nathan Cullen shine on Mulcair issue; other New Democrats, Tories not so much
As I write in a column that will be in our papers tomorrow, I believe the Liberals are doing best so far when it comes to the politics around the issue of NDP leadership hopeful Thomas Mulcair’s dual citizenship. I make the argument that, as Bob Rae pointed out today, the NDP can be characterized as hypocrites on the dual citizenship issue for back in 2006, when it was about Stephane Dion’s dual citizenship, their leader at the time, Jack Layton, as well as several other NDP MPs argued that holding two passports was untenable with being the leader of a party, let alone PM. Continue reading Liberals, Nathan Cullen shine on Mulcair issue; other New Democrats, Tories not so much