Politics is a business of addition but this week New Democrat leadership candidates demonstrated they’re focused on subtraction.
Gone are the prospects of forming a government. Former leader Jack Layton’s 2011 orange wave, with 103 seats and a presence in every region of the country, may go down as the unfulfilled beachhead.
The biggest hurdle — obvious to anyone watching the NDP leadership debate Thursday or its more disastrous fall debate — is the painful to inadequate level of French the candidates demonstrated.
