Stick with me, Mulcair urges NDP delegates with job as leader hanging in balance
Posted April 10, 2016 9:50 am.
Last Updated April 10, 2016 9:53 am.
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EDMONTON (NEWS 1130) – Tom Mulcair is making one last pitch to the New Democrat faithful to allow him to stay on as leader.
Just a couple of hours away from a vote that could determine his fate, Mulcair is urging rank-and-file members to stand with him, saying there is too much work ahead for the party to remain divided.
Mulcair says he takes responsibility for the mistakes of last year’s disappointing election campaign, but insists he is re-energized, reinspired and re-engaged after six months of meeting grassroots supporters.
Billing himself as a hard-nosed political fighter, he says only New Democrats will continue to battle against income inequality, because the Liberals and the Conservatives are too loyal to their corporate backers and the status quo.
He says the federal Liberal budget proves that when it comes to child care and health care, the principle of universality _ the cherished legacy of party founder Tommy Douglas _ is in peril
And he is renewing a push for electoral reform, saying that the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau has already started to back away from its promise to end the current first-past-the-post system, which he says effectively discounted some nine million votes in October.
