also a promise that i'll make right now: if dewar becomes leader, i will organize ceaselessly to take laverdière out in laurier-sainte marie in the nomination battle, including - if necessary - becoming the candidate myself. there are two bastions of ndp support in montreal, and she's representing one of them, and the more i think of it, the more outrageous i find her support of dewar. she's literally the only montrealer i've met who even remotely prefers him as leader.
I think you are going overboard here. Helene Laverdiere is a very strong MP with enormous experience in foreign affairs. I had the pleasure of meeting her face to face and i she really impressed me and i found her to be an all-around wonderful person. I agree that her endorsement of Dewar is a bit "quixotic" - but maybe she and Dewar have simply become very good personal friends - and that counts for a lot? I think you need to count from 100 to 1 backwards and lower our blood pressure and not make rash threats post-dated to September of 2015!
read my follow up post(s). she's just not right for the riding. i've been thinking about this way before she was elected. you can find posts of mine on here from several years ago predicting this riding becoming one of our two fortresses in quebec, and describing who we'd need in there for it to happen, how it would be consolidated, etc. think of how jack harris is making st john an ndp fief, or how halifax is now a very safe ndp seat, etc. laurier-sainte marie should be the sort of riding that other parties don't even bother seriously contesting, but to get to that point, we need that first mp who commands enormous personal support, and i can tell you, from experience, that laverdière is emphatically not that mp. the baffling dewar endorsement just adds an irritating element to it all because, like i said, if she got her wish, she'd likely lose her seat. to restate it dispassionately: in a normal election where we picked up 20-30 seats nationwide, that seat would have been won by a super charismatic, ultra-connected well known local - laverdière won in the wave, most people hadn't a clue who she was, and now that we are doing party consolidation work in montreal, the task moves to getting ourselves that person (described above) who'll become one of our showcase mps.