The weekend’s result came as a surprise to Mulcair, who insiders say believed he had strong support after two days of talking to delegates in corridors and on the convention floor.
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The NDP leader was dealt a fatal blow Sunday, when 52 per cent of delegates to a party convention voted in favour of a leadership review.
Ironically enough, Mulcair lost the general election as NDP leader after being unable to capture the centrist vote from the Canadian electorate.
Chad Machum, president of the NDP’s Sudbury federal Electoral District Association, said Monday he expected Mulcair to at least receive the support of a majority of the delegates.
Although the party’s constitution requires a leadership convention to be held within a year, delegates voted to postpone it until 2018.
The rifts exposed by the NDP’s divisive non-confidence vote in Tom Mulcair’s leadership deepened Monday as some New Democrat MPs questioned his intention to stay at the helm until a successor is chosen.
The Leap Manifesto is a document calling for a rapid shift away from fossil fuel development in the Canadian economy. She said no and declared the Alberta NDP will take part in the national NDP debate and will fight against the manifesto.
On Saturday, Alberta’s NDP premier, Rachel Notley, pleaded with New Democrats to understand that thousands of families in her province depend on natural resources for their living, and need a pipeline and support for the oil and gas sector to maintain their quality of life – even while working to improve the environment. The party’s finances are likely to be further straitened by the coming leadership contest, as candidates solicit donations for their own campaigns. With that said, the NDP reaches its electoral heights with a man who walked with a cane.
MacFarlane said he didn’t have any thoughts about the next leader, though he said he did like Nathan Cullen, who finished second to Mulcair last time.
October 13, 2011: Mulcair announces his candidacy for the NDP leadership, left open after the untimely death of Jack Layton, who had led the party to its best ever finish – and official Opposition status – just a few months earlier.
While Mulcair’s future and the Leap Manifesto were not intricately linked, it was probably the most important reason for his demise. The Leap Manifesto calls for a halt to pipeline construction and an end to all fossil fuel use by the year 2050.
July 2: Two months after its victory, a Mainstreet/Postmedia poll suggests Alberta’s NDP government was trailing the Wildrose party in public support.
If the NDP is not strongly backed in Hamilton, that can impact the party’s success in surrounding areas like Niagara, Haldimand-Norfolk, Cambridge and Mississauga, he said.
Before the vote, he tweeted: “If you keep standing with me, then together, we will never stop fighting”.
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Meanwhile, she said she is up to debate the issue with other members of the federal party.
