NDP severely wounded entering 2015 election year

Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has boasted that Mulcair is the strongest opposition leader the country has seen since John Diefenbaker, a claim many in Ottawa would not dispute. So what has gone so wrong for Thomas Mulcair?

Attending the NDP leadership convention in March 2012 as a student journalist, I witnessed a party bursting with energy excited for the battle ahead. When Thomas Mulcair ultimately emerged victorious, it felt anticlimactic: the result was never truly in doubt.

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