she's clearly an actress, by her tone of voice. and, not a good one.
"is it better with the mic away from me?"
you can definitely hear her better once you take the mic away from you - and once the sound person turns her up.
the worst part about the whole thing is that this is what the party actually wants to run on. the cynicism underlying this is where the real racists are living....
his candidacy is popular in the party's bureaucratic wing due to the same kind of cynicism that thinks they can win minority ridings by running a minority, but is not catching on amongst members. the ndp doesn't actually have a choice, here: it needs to listen to it's members, because if it doesn't then it won't be a party, any more.
and, this was the problem in the first place: if it had listened to it's members, it wouldn't have swung so far right in the last election.
the country wants to elect a party that doesn't exist: it wants the historical ndp back. everybody - including the liberals - seems to realize this, except for the existing ndp, itself. so long as that surreal situation manifests itself, we're going to be stuck with liberals or conservatives.
i don't have a fundamental opposition to electing a guy with a turban, although i'll admit it's hard for me to imagine a way in which i could harmonize my vision of a secular society with the vision of somebody that wears a turban (i'd imagine a sikh i could actually vote for would probably look more like nikki haley than jagmeet singh). but, the reality is that this guy is simply a bad candidate for a left-wing party.
it's not what's on his head that i don't like, it's what's between his ears.
...and, as this process has played out, what he's really exposed is how corrupt the party is as a vessel: this guy is an empty turban, and the machine behind him is not something anybody on the left should be supporting.