[LINK] "Tom Mulcair's plea for redemption"

[rfmcdonald]

NOW Toronto's Barry Weisleder notes Thomas Mulcair's underwhelming response to the NDP catastrophe this past election. Can he survive? I Wonder. (I hope not.)

It has an air of desperation about it. And a touch of remorse. But it is severely lacking in political transparency.

For New Democrats who consider electoral prospects paramount, Tom Mulcair's personal reflections on the 2015 campaign released on the party's website February 10 lead inexorably to the one conclusion. He must be replaced as party leader.

The status of the much-vaunted Interim Report of the Campaign Review Working Group, chaired by party president Rebecca Blaikie, remains in the shadows. Why wasn't it attached to Mulcair's plaintive cry for redemption? How can the party rank-and-file properly appreciate the “insights” of the review so far if they are not made public?

According to Blaikie, her working group's summary will go to the incoming federal executive and council. So much for the promises from on-high to improve communication and decision-making.

Mulcair talks about core social democratic values in his letter. It might be good to make a list of these. Sadly, Mulcair does not. “We came up short,” Mulcair writes. That admission puts him in the worldwide derby for understatement of the decade.