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Welcome Thomas Mulcair to the wonderful world of being the new leader of the HRH Official Opposition.I'm not a big Mulcair fan but at this present time in Canadian politics, he was the best of the 7 other candidates the NDP has to offer and is best suited to lock horns with Stephen Harper, he is a good debater and is a political veteran and if he can control is anger, he could be a great asset to his party, unlike the late Jack Layton, Mulcair is no John Lennon, quite the opposite but he is a progressive centralist which the NDP is not noted to be to this extent.Mulcair will also be a pain in the side of the Liberals, being a liberal himself at one point, Mulcair will take some of the spotlight away from interim Liberal, Bob Rae who was getting quite a bit of that in the last sitting of the house, Mulcair likes the attention and seems to shine in it.As for support from the rest of Canadians, it's too early to gage, he does enjoy much support in Quebec which is not surprising since Quebec knows him very well as a former provincial Liberal minister and lets not forget that most of the NDP delegates who helped inject him into winning the leadership race were also from that province.Mr. Mulcair has a big job ahead of him, first and foremost to go head to head with the Prime Minister, unite the nation and bring the NDP credibility to form the next government. The downfall of having Mulcair as the NDP leader is that, out of the 7 candidates, he is the most likely to self destruct, that would be trouble for the party and could possibly be what Ed Broadbent could of been afraid of.
