Someday, they’ll hold an election and no one will come — and maybe it will be the current NDP leadership race.

As you will no doubt be aware, the starting gun was fired at the start of the month, with the finishing line scheduled for the end of March next year.

So far though, only one fringe candidate, the perennial gadfly Yves Engler, has declared. He may be vetoed by the party brass if they resolve that he does not comply with the “principles and core values of the party.”

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Engler is campaigning on a platform to abolish capitalism, “de-grow” the economy and remove former justice minister Irwin Cotler’s Order of Canada over his support for Israel.

His modus operandi is to ambush public figures and ask if they support genocide

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