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“This is a good time to be a New Democrat.” Enthusiastic NDP supporters filled the seats in the Ottawa Room at REGION Renfrew’s Best Western Inn andREGION Conference Centre May 27 to nominate labour lawyer Dan McCarthy of Burnstown as the party’s candidate for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke in .CA .COM the Oct. 19 federal election. McCarthy, who was raised in Winnipeg, ran unopposed for the nomination. He was endorsed by longtime friend, Winnipeg-Centre MP Pat Martin as “one of most honourable and decent and competent candidates I can remember.” DAN MCCARTHY Martin was the guest speaker at the May 27 nomination event. misdirection, which was a factor in He spoke to the riding association as many as 200 ridings, he said, addfor a much smaller audience in 2000, ing Stephen Harper won government with a “razor-thin” majority of 12,000 when the NDP had just 13 MPs. “Now we are 100 and we are the votes. Martin criticized the government’s government in waiting,” he said. “It’s a very good time to be a decision to raise the retirement age New Democrat,” said Martin. The and gut environmental protection and party is buoyed by recent election human rights with a series of unprecpolls, the NDP’s win in Alberta, edented omnibus bills, on which the and the “remarkable” performance government allowed almost no time of federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair. for debate. He condemned the federal Conservatives for election fraud through voter See WINNIPEG-CENTRE, page 2
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