[NEWS] Five Canada politics links: Ruth-Ellen Brosseau, Caroline Mulroney, the right and the NDP

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• This editorial from the Globe and Mail makes the perfectly valid point that once-novice MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau is an excellent MP, the sort Canada needs more of.


• As leader, Caroline Mulroney would be prepared to change the platform of the Ontario PCs if need be. The Toronto Star reports.


• It turns out that outgoing Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown's claim to have boosted paid membership of the party to 200 thousand was off by 70k. The National Post goes into more detail.


• At the level of the national Conservatives, Stephen Harper's admission that he knew of the claims of sexual harassment against MP Rick Dykstra could potentially be very damaging for the party. The Toronto Star reports.Is now really the right time, Susan Delacourt wonders at the Toronto Star, for left-wing populists inspired by Bernie Sanders to make a bid for control of the NDP?