Saturday, January 10, 2009

New Democrat finance critic impresses European audience ...

From today's Financial Post ...

On a bitterly cold night in Paris this week, a small group of current and former world leaders sat down in the the French prime minister's residence for supper with a hand-picked selection of Nobel laureates.

Seated in the opulent splendour of Matignon house alongside guests including Germany's Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, was a sole Canadian who had received a personal invitation from the host, French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

... who's that turning heads among the European political and business leaders as they strategize over the appropriate response to the global recession?

You guessed it, Jack Layton's finance critic, Thomas Mulcair.

If Mulcair and NDP ideas can impress and be welcomed by leaders of international finance abroad, maybe, just maybe it's about time detractors at home finally ejected their outmoded stereotypes about about the New Democrats.

1 comment:

susansmith said...

Did MSM bury this or has the NDP not published it?