NDP elects former Hill staffer Vick as new party president

Two slates went head to head to form the NDP’s new executive, one backed by party establishment and the other made up of members of the party’s socialist caucus.

New NDP president Mathieu Vick pictured during his candidate speech to delegates at the NDP policy convention in Ottawa on Feb. 18. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

February 18, 2018

NDP members elected a new party president on the last day of the party’s 2018 policy convention, with former Hill staffer Mathieu Vick being elevated to the role after garnering roughly 83 per cent of the votes cast. “I’m here for the same reasons as all of you. We need urgent action on incom...

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