NDP Staffer Joins Witch Hunt Against Turmel

Pretend the following isn’t a NDP staffer, who does it sound like?:

The staffer, speaking anonymously to RDI’s La période des questions, said it shows a lack of integrity that Turmel held memberships in the Bloc Québécois for four years — until weeks before she announced her NDP candidacy — and in provincial party Québec Solidaire until Tuesday…

But the NDP staffer said there’s unease in the party now because the people who selected Turmel as interim leader didn’t know about her memberships in sovereigntist parties.

"The profound unease that’s taken over the party is that there was a large number of people, the majority of people, who voted didn’t know then. And that’s a very, very serious unease, because it’s a crisis of confidence.

"When we take a party membership, it’s not a sign of friendship…. It’s a commitment, it’s an adherence to a philosophy," he said.

"You can’t lead a federalist party when you were sufficiently involved in a separatist party or parties."