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   XPost: tor.general   
   From: justforlaughs@still.com   
      
   On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:43:08 -0700, "Çons@30%" <Çons@30%@can.ca>   
   wrote:   
      
   >Personal data - Thomas Mulcair   
   >   
   >Date of birth         October 24, 1954   (age 57)   
   >Place of birth       Ottawa, Ontario   
   >Political party      New Democratic Party (This time around.)   
   >Spouse                 Catherine Pinhas   
   >Residence            Montreal, Quebec, Canada   
   >Profession           Attorney, professor, politician   
   >Religion               Roman Catholic   
   >   
   >He has been married to Catherine Pinhas since 1976.   
   >She is a psychologist with Turkish-Jewish heritage who was born in France,   
   and the couple have   
   >two sons.   
   >   
   >In 1992, he conducted a wonderful spat with Augustin Roy, the hopelessly   
   superannuated head of   
   >the Quebec Corporation of Physicians.  Dr. Roy saw nothing wrong with an   
   Ottawa psychiatrist,   
   >who had pleaded guilty to serial sexual misconduct with a patient, taking up   
   residence at a   
   >Montreal hospital.  Mr. Mulcair disagreed - all over the news.  At one point   
   he described a   
   >"donnybrook" of a conversation with Dr. Roy, who responded that Mr. Mulcair   
   was a "disgrace to   
   >the legal profession."   
   >This was an easy target, perhaps, but Mr. Mulcair didn't miss.   
   >   
   >"The laws don't exist to protect faulty practitioners," he thundered.  "They   
   exist to protect   
   >the public.  If Dr. Roy doesn't realize that, he'll be made to realize   
   that."  The psychiatrist   
   >soon fled to Argentina, never to be heard from again except in relation to   
   patient-protection   
   >legislation that Mr. Mulcair championed.  Dr. Roy was gone two years later.    
   Consumer   
   >protection is a key focus of Mr. Mulcair's leadership campaign.   
   >   
   >As a "star candidate" for the Liberals in the 1994 provincial election - a   
   stark battle between   
   >separatism and federalism - Mr. Mulcair was front and centre in public   
   debates, warning of   
   >economic doom should the PQ, let alone the Yes campaign, prevail.   
   >   
   >In 2006, rather than accept a demotion, he abruptly quit and was soon   
   campaigning for the   
   >federal NDP in Outremont, a Liberal bastion that he took surprisingly easily   
   in a byelection.   
   >He claimed the resignation was a matter of principle: The government wanted   
   to give provincial   
   >parkland to developers; he refused to approve. But anonymous sources muttered   
   darkly that he   
   >simply wasn't a team player.   
   >   
   >In a 2011 profile in L'Actualité, veteran Liberal MNA Pierre Paradis   
   recalled Mr. Mulcair as a   
   >"ruthless warrior."   
   >   
   >There was the time, in a television studio in 2002, when he yelled, "I can't   
   wait to see you in   
   >prison you old c---," at a former PQ minister he had accused of influence   
   peddling. Said former   
   >minister successfully sued Mr. Mulcair for $95,000.   
   >   
   >In the Vancouver debate last weekend, Paul Dewar suggested that unlike the   
   "happy warrior" Mr.   
   >Layton, Mr. Mulcair was too much warrior, and not happy enough, to lead the   
   party in which   
   >everyone is supposed to play nice.   
   >   
   >This, surely, is another conceit. Jack Laytons don't grow on trees. And one   
   of the many things   
   >Mr. Mulcair and his leadership opponents agree on is the notion that   
   Conservatives are quite   
   >literally tearing apart the moral, social and economic fabric of Canada. Why   
   shouldn't their   
   >leader be angry?   
   >   
   >"I think, watching Parliament, that [Mr. Mulcair] is the only one who can go   
   head-tohead with   
   >Stephen Harper and Bob Rae on a consistent basis, day to day," says Mr.   
   Nystrom.   
   >   
   >At some point, the New Democrats will have to confront the realities of what   
   they hope to   
   >achieve. Nice guys and ideologues might finish second now and again in   
   Canadian politics. But   
   >none has ever finished first.   
   >   
   >*******************************************************   
   >"We CAN look after each other better than we do today.   
   >We CAN have a fiscally responsible government.   
   >We CAN have a strong economy; greater equality; a clean environment.   
   >We CAN be a force for peace in the world."                      - Jack Layton   
   >   
      
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