(Source: Canadian Press, September 23, 2014)
TORONTO — Tom Mulcair is harkening back to the NDP’s social democratic roots, casting his party as the champion of working class Canadians and the bane of what he calls corporate “freeloaders.”
In a toughly-worded speech to be delivered today to a Teamsters rail safety conference, the NDP leader’s rhetoric is reminiscent of the party’s former leaders, particularly that of David Lewis who campaigned against “corporate welfare bums” in 1972.
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