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Tom Mulcair made a mistake by saying, 'When I’m prime minister,' during last fall’s election campaign, writes Les Whittington, because it sounded smarmy and overconfident and totally wrong, 'symbolic of a tone-deaf campaign that finally caught up with him in the rejection of his leadership on Sunday.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

April 13, 2016

OTTAWA—I never understood why Thomas Mulcair kept saying, “When I’m prime minister” during last fall’s election campaign. Whatever he was thinking, the smarmy, overconfident phraseology struck me as totally wrong—symbolic of a tone-deaf campaign that finally caught up with him in the rej...

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