No, I didn't mean it was a question of the rules.  But it would be harder to have the moral high ground, if he passed up running again, given that he's sat it out a couple of times.  To have the moral authority to run for leader, you have to have been in the trenches when the going got rough.

Debater, you take all your political analysis from talking heads on TV.  If the NDP spent all its time listening to them, we'd have given up and packed it in as a party long ago.  I could hardly care less what Jean Lapierre thinks about what the NDP should try to achieve in Quebec.  Citing him as authoritative is what continues to make people on this board react so voluably to things you write here.  Remember, he is hardly a disinterested party either given his political history in two other parties in that province.  Jean Lapierre has an opinion, and it's worth listening to, along with those of many others, but that's about it.

If you want to continue to piss people off here, please continue to cite the opinions of mainstream media sources as definitive oracles of what will transpire politically.  What does Craig Oliver think, for example?  Oh wait, what about the editorial board of the National Post?  Or Susan Delacourt?  I simply must know, in order to know whether there is any point whatsoever in supporting my party ... so do tell ... Because they've ALWAYS been right before, haven't they !!!