Is Jagmeet Singh The Right Person To Lead The NDP?
As the media hails Jagmeet Singh as some social democratic messiah, is he the right choice for a party that seems to want to move in a more progressive direction? On Monday night the Ontario NDP's deputy leader Jagmeet Singh became the sixth candidate to join the federal NDP leadership race. Singh has represented his suburban riding of Brampton since 2011, the first NDP anything to represent Ontario's peel region. If he won the leadership, that in and of itself would be a major, historic achievement, as he would not just be the first Sikh, but the first non-white person ever to lead a major political party in Canada. His speech focused on social justice, inequality, indigenous reconciliation, climate change, and made a direct appeal to Quebec, saying he has a unique understanding of Quebeckers because of his own struggle to maintain his language and identity, which he said in fluent french. He attacked the Liberal government for their comments on precarious work for you...