“In the meantime, through his act of well-timed civil disobedience, JAGMEET SINGH WON the day’s news cycle.”
Winner by way of MacLeans Magazine–Jagmeet Singh. What a TRAGIC DISGRACE this is.
According to NDP federal party leader, MP Jagmeet Singh, he doesn’t “want the conversation that I have with Mr. Trudeau to be used as a tool in his exoneration, or to be used as a way for him to say, ‘I’ve had a conversation with a racialized leader and now I’ve done my job,'” he said.
The 37-year-old was elected to the provincial legislature in 2011 for his Brampton, Ont. riding, Bramalea-Gore-Malton, after narrowly losing a bid for a federal seat that year to Conservative Bal Gosal.
Published on Apr 11, 2016- Point of view: Rex shares his thoughts on what effect the Leap Manifesto has had on the New Democratic Party of Canada.
Whom are we kidding? Do we really think that the government will relinquish the cozy asylum of political advantage? This is a fight we have to win: it should consume our collective energies.
“[The niqab] hurt us terribly. It was measured. I can share with you that the polling we did showed we dropped over 20 points in 48 hours here in Quebec because of the strong stand I took on the niqab,” Mulcair said.
MONTREAL — The Bloc Québécois produces an attack ad depicting oil from a pipeline transforming into a black niqab and warns things have “gone too far.” A Conservative candidate running south of Montreal urges people to vote wearing ski masks to show their disapproval of the Muslim face-covering. The campaign poster of a Montreal NDP candidate is vandalized to obscure her face as if she is wearing a niqab.
The election campaign in Quebec has turned nasty since the Federal Court of Appeal ruled last week a Toronto woman should be allowed to take the oath of citizenship wearing a niqab, and it is the NDP that is feeling the pinch the most.
