there was an announcement by the ndp a little while ago that i interpreted as a broadcast that they would be using the #metoo thing as an opportunity to put singh backers in key positions, and here it is.

erin weir is a prominent voice in caucus and a reasonable candidate for this position, but he's also a white male. i would expect the new caucus chair to, in the end, be female.

the federal ndp has a unique type of incompetence. first, they can't even do a purge without being obvious. second, the basis of this purge appears to be trivial, and the effects of a trivial pure are inevitably going to be harmful.

the predicament that the ndp is in, right now, is as much a consequence of the mulcair purges, which destroyed a lot of the party's best mps, as it is of his eventual electoral defeat. it is because of the mulcair purges that the people that ought to be shaping the party's rebuild are stuck on the outside of it; this created the vacuum that allowed singh to hijack the party, as well.

in the near future, certainly until 2019, expect the effects of these changes to be to hollow out the party by removing even more of the party's most outspoken and individually-minded mps in favour of a more visibly diverse caucus that is also conveniently chosen to be more easily led from head office.

and, this is going to backfire very badly in 2019, which is when the party will hit rock bottom, in it's transformation from a dying worker's party in a post-industrial state to one that seeks to elevate the voices of new canadians in a neo-colonial one.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-allegation-ndp-1.4514117

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.