Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: For a party that’s so against discrimination, here’s a lesson Ontario’s NDP is still struggling to learn
As a progressive party, it leads the fight against racism.
When she took over last month, the NDP and many of its supporters were still reeling ― and squirming ― over the shamelessness of an outspoken MPP on its back benches: Joel Harden had boasted bizarrely in public about his practice ofYes, on their Canadian doorsteps.
The NDP’s then-leader, Andrea Horwath, stood by him at first, proclaiming breezily if obtusely: “His values are very, very much the same as my values, as NDP values.”as a candidate. Tabuns also asked the two visiting human rights consultants, Bernie Farber and Len Rudner, to deliver a private tutorial for the offending MPP. Harden did some listening and reflecting and apologizing .
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