Paul Dewar might announce to run for NDP leadership Sunday

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New Democrat Paul Dewar might announce his plans of becoming the next NDP leader. Dewar has called a press conference this Sunday. He emailed his supporters saying, “I have news to share and I want you to be a part of it.”

Since 2006, Dewar has been representing Ottawa Centre, and is at present, critic of NDP’s foreign affairs. In case Dewar decides to run for the leadership race, he will have to give up his role as a critic.

Dewar has introduced over 20 private member’s bills, many of which were later assumed by the administration, including bills terminating candent light bulbs, protecting Gatineau Park, just north of Ottawa, and forming the National Capital Commission.

Up till now, Brian Topp and Romeo Saganash are the only affirmed runners in the leadership race.

Thomas Mulcair, the NDP’s Quebec lieutenant, has not officially announced that he will enter the race, but has hinted he would encounter difficulties since party does not have many members in Quebec, where most of his supporters reside.

The next NDP leader will be elected in Toronto on March 24, 2012.

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  1. It’s rather obscene for Paul Dewar to say the Conservative government adopted “his” comment_content_IDeas on Gatineau Park in its flawed Bill C-37.

    The government bill contained none of the major safeguards Dewar once sacomment_ID were essential to park protection – i.e., parliamentary oversight of changes to park boundaries, as well as a mechanism to prevent development and acquire private lands.

    But that’s not all, in his November 24, 2010 press release, Dewar listed several amendments he claimed he “won” from the Conservative government. What a fish story: not only dcomment_ID the NDP not propose any amendments to the government’s park bill, but the amendments Dewar claimed as his own were in fact introduced by the Conservatives in committee.

    Moreover – and this is what really takes the cake – the NDP voted against every opposition amendment that would have brought Dewar’s key comment_content_IDeas for the park into the government bill.

    Shame on Paul Dewar for trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public.

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