‘I think there’s a little bit too much of that in Tom’s commentary to date’: some New Democrats irked by ‘armchair quarterback’ Mulcair

Ex-top aide Karl Bélanger counters: paid pundits ‘can’t just repeat the talking points’.

Former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, right, pictured on CTV's Power Play with host Don Martin, helped pull his party to first place in opinion polls a few months before the 2015 election, only to see the NDP fall to third place and hemorrhage seats in the October vote. Screen capture courtesy of CTV's Power Play

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW AND BEATRICE PAEZ

September 9, 2019

Former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s turn as a political commentator has raised eyebrows among some of the party faithful, and a few longtime New Democrats say he should curtail his criticisms of new party leader Jagmeet Singh and his team.

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