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   XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, mtl.general   
   XPost: tor.general   
   From: Çons@30%   
      
   On Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:43:08 PM UTC-6, Çons@30% wrote:   
   > Personal data - Thomas Mulcair   
   >   
   > Date of birth         October 24, 1954   (age 57)   
   > Place of birth       Ottawa, Ontario   
   > Political party      New Democratic Party   
   > 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.   
      
      
      
   "Roy"  wrote in message   
   news:14368129.1269.1332720301503.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcjk1...   
   He will have my support over Bob Rae any day. Bob Rae is a chameleon who's day   
   in politics is   
   OVER.   
      
   I don't trust Bob Rae to keep us out of any war on behalf of Israel.  That is   
   my single worst   
   fear about the man.  Otherwise, Rae is a good scrapper in his own right and   
   the combination of   
   Mulcair and Rae would bring the end of the Harper Cons once and for all time.   
      
   Maybe the leader of the opposition party with the most seats in the House   
   should lead any   
   'coalition' or 'joint candidates' campaigns?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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