Chantal Hebert

Fact is that there aren't many, if there are any, safe NDP seats in the country.

And there's not at this point an NDP momentum

to get him elected anywhere.

That could change.

Maybe next fall things will look different.

And he'll regret taking a pass on that BCC.

But because I believe we're about to get into the next episode of the pipeline debate between BC and Alberta, probably.

But so me, I would have maybe kept the option open.

But I do not believe that it's a strategic choice made out of freedom of choice, but rather out of necessity and political necessity.

Yes, and he did have a profile in Ontario because of his work at the Federation of Municipalities, which is a big deal at ground level.

If you're known to mayors, it's not the same as being known to 24 faithful in Lloydminster.

But one forgets that Alexa McDonough actually left Jack Layton a party that was back on the rise with seats in Atlantic Canada.

She's the one who picked up the party in not as bad, but almost as bad a state as it is today.

And she slowly but surely moved it back.

One also forgets that one of the things Jack Layton did that I don't

I'm not sure Abbie Lewis is able to do, is use his knowledge of Quebec because he was from there.

His father had been a Mulroney minister to work Quebec and to lay the groundwork for one day Thomas Mulcair running for Jack Layton.

People from outside do not realize how big that was in Quebec.

But to get someone credible like Thomas Mulcair to run and win took a lot of work.

And a lot of that work was Jack Layton's work.