Mulcair makes campaign stop in Dartmouth
Posted Oct 14, 2015 01:12:10 PM.
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DARTMOUTH, NS – Tom Mulcair started the day in Nova Scotia, where at least one of his three NDP incumbents in the Halifax area is locked in a tough fight ahead of the October 19th vote.
The NDP leader was at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth on Wednesday morning, in the riding of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, held by incumbent Robert Chisholm.
Chisholm, a former provincial NDP leader, ousted Liberal Mike Savage by a narrow margin in 2011, but faces a battle for re-election.
Mulcair says he feels Chisholm will win and once again brushed aside the latest polls that suggest flagging support for his party and a possible Liberal victory.
Mulcair says Chisholm, deputy leader Megan Leslie and veteran MP Peter Stoffer are working hard to ensure they’ll be part of the first NDP government in Canada.
The bedrock of the NDP’s pitch to Canadians is that it is the shortest path to defeating Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, a narrative that presupposes the party can hold on to its historic 2011 victories, like the one in Chisholm’s riding.
Mulcair is scheduled to campaign in Quebec later on Wednesday, a province that gave the New Democrats 59 seats in 2011 and helped elevate his party to official Opposition status for the first time.
