Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Monday August 27, 2018
Jagmeet Singh, Missing in Action
Jagmeet Singh to announce run for Parliament (story from 3 weeks ago)
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will announce Wednesday he’s running for the Burnaby South seat in the House of Commons, CTV News has confirmed.
Singh won the federal NDP leadership last fall but isn’t a member of Parliament. Reports indicated he would run to replace New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart, who has resigned his seat to run in Vancouver’s mayoral race.
Singh has an event in Burnaby, B.C. Tomorrow.
“I know he’s looking at it very closely,” Stewart said in an interview with CTVNews.ca
“I did approach Jagmeet suggesting that it might be good for him to run in Burnaby South. What’s been very positive is when I mention it to people in Burnaby, is how excited they got,” he said.
Stewart said Singh understands the city and knows the NDP supporters there.
Singh sat in the Ontario Legislature before his federal leadership run, representing the Toronto area riding of Bramalea-Gore-Malton. He held the seat from 2011 to 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Ontario NDP.
Stewart said he’s not concerned that Singh isn’t from the riding and noted former NDP leader Tommy Douglas, who had been premier of Saskatchewan, served in the riding after leaving Saskatchewan politics. (CTV News)