Economics
Meet the Economic Team Helping Mulcair Tack to Canada's Middle
- Leader brings former Liberal operatives into NDP inner circle
- Advisers include lawyers, lawmakers, labor-movement officials
Tom Mulcair, leader of the New Democratic Party. Photographer: Ben Nelms/Bloomberg
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Tom Mulcair, seeking to bring the New Democratic Party to power in Canada for the first time, is leaning on a pair of operatives from outside its traditional leftist base as he moves toward the political center.
The NDP leader is relying on longtime allies Geoffrey Chambers and Alain Gaul, steeped in business and political experience, to vet economic issues and other proposals during this campaign, according to party insiders who spoke on condition of anonymity.