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rfmcdonaldAt ipolitics.ca, Andrew Mitrovica is scathing of the leadership of the federal NDP, not just Mulcair.
In the months since its calamitous election campaign, the NDP — a party that prides itself on, and largely defines itself by, perpetually demanding accountability of other parties — has carefully avoided holding its own leader to account.
As far as I can tell, no one inside the NDP hierarchy in Ottawa has paid any price (beyond a little humiliation) in the wake of the painful thrashing the party received on October 19.
Tom Mulcair remains the bruised, diminished leader of a rump caucus reduced to playing third-string in the House of Commons and acting, yet again, as the self-proclaimed parliamentary conscience of Canada. (The line the NDP trots out every time it gets trounced in a federal election — that it’s the Western Hemisphere’s most moral party — is getting stale.)
Sure, Mulcair has made noises about how he takes personal responsibility for squandering the NDP’s historic opportunity to actually win a federal election. But from my distant perch in Toronto, Mulcair’s mea culpa sounds about as convincing as Ezra Levant does when he tells people he’s a journalist now.
Look, if Mulcair truly accepted blame for the NDP’s disastrous showing, don’t you think he would have taken the proverbial walk in the snow by now? Ottawa did record its largest one-day snowfall ever earlier this week. Opportunity knocks, Mr. Mulcair.
