While on the topic of the Liberal leadership race, we should also talk about another party that’s in dire straits and desperately needs a new leader: the NDP.
When Jagmeet Singh won the leadership in late 2017, he was a breath of fresh air for the frumpy NDP, which had long been associated with socks-with-sandals lefties and equally unfashionable table-pounding union leaders. He was young, diverse, social-media savvy and from outside the Ottawa bubble. As a fashion plate who enjoys the finer things in life, he cut a dash through Ontario provincial politics and the Toronto cultural scene.
But like many first-round draft picks, he flopped in the majors.
