Jagmeet Singh New Leader of NDP Party(Canada)

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Source: Command News

**>NewsAlert<** (NDP-Leadership)
TORONTO - The New Democrats have tapped Ontario politician Jagmeet Singh to take over for Tom Mulcair and lead the embattled party into the next federal election.

Singh romped to a first-ballot win with 35,266 votes, easily outstripping his three rivals: northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton and Quebec MP Guy Caron.

Angus came in second with 12,705 votes, followed by Niki Ashton with 11,374 and Guy Caron with 6,164.

With its long-haul leadership race now over, the party _ which has just 44 of the 338 seats in the House of Commons _ is now free to focus on presenting a unified front to battle Justin Trudeau's Liberals in the 2019 federal election.

Insiders and political observers alike say it's high time the NDP regrouped, put the disappointment of the 2015 election result in the past and start laying the foundation for a strong showing in two years.

More than 124,000 card-carrying members were eligible to take part in the vote, which was conducted online and by mail by way of a ranked ballot _ voters were able to rank the candidates in order of preference.

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my headline as this is a wire email I get at work.
Jagmeet is the first Sikh to lead a major party in Canada.

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1. A talented liberal Sikh politician and super sharp dresser

As a lawyer he has represented many who have little money. When a Canadian tea party type lady stood up and accused him of wanting to institute sharia law etc he was masterful, saying to the crowd How do we want to deal with situations like this? With love and respect. Honestly I thought he seemed like Jesus come back to earth, just a completely beautiful person. The video went viral.

And he also is one really sharp dresser, looks like he stepped off the pages of Sikh Gentleman’s Quarterly.

This guy is a star.