The bus is orange. The seats are carpeted. And the battle cry for the partisans on board is borrowed from the late Jack Layton: “Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.”
Layton led the NDP to its best-ever election result in 2011, when the party won 100 seats and, for the first and only time, became the official opposition.
Jagmeet Singh, by contrast, is fighting to keep official party status.
