‘The New NDP’ chronicles rise of party under Layton, Mulcair in unparalleled detail

The book describes how Jack Layton's team softened the NDP’s hard ideological edges, and imposed order and discipline on the NDP caucus.

The late Jack Layton led the NDP to a party-record 103 seats and official opposition status in June of 2011. He died of cancer in August of that year. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY ALEX MARLAND

September 2, 2019

ST. JOHN'S—A new book about the New Democratic Party offers exceptional insights into the party’s evolution from an undisciplined ideological group to a political marketing powerhouse. Current leader Jagmeet Singh and his strategists should pick up a copy, and quick. The New NDP: Moderation...

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