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YEG2016: 48 Hours Later

Our party made a shocking decision this weekend.

YEG2016 - Tom at Podium

Tom Mulcair’s final speech to us as party leader on Sunday morning took place immediately prior to the all-important vote.

We were all expecting the leadership review to be a very close vote — that Tom might only barely make the 70% threshold that had been declared the previous week as the magic number.

My greatest fear then had been that we’d find ourselves at 65%, a limbo number with neither sufficient support for Tom to continue, nor low enough to trigger a leadership convention.

We were all dead wrong.

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