To judge from my inbox today, something about the manner of Robert Chisholm's departure from the provincial leadership pissed off a few New Democratic Party loyalists. But one party stalwart rejected these comments as, "old wounds and sour grapes." Don't be too quick to put him in the Chisholm column though: More to the point - how can a uni-lingual politician aspire to the leadership of a national political party in Canada in 2011? A party with over 50% of its caucus from Quebec? A party with official opposition status and its eye on the big prize? Je ne comprends pas. Moi non plus....

01 November, 2011

A failed Nova Scotia NDP leader for leader of the national NDP? Hasn't that been tried before? I don't know what he's up to. Certainly not hoping to become leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Raising his personal profile? For what? Consolidating regional delegates in case of a brokered convention? To what end? The whole thing strikes me as an exercise in misplaced vanity....

31 October, 2011