God forbid that the leader of the NDP spend a day living like the ordinary voter.
Evidently he grew up in St. John's and Windsor, so I'm guessing he spent lots and lots of days living like the ordinary voter.
The point is, if the media finds out that he's couch-surfing to save a few bucks, it kind of looks bad on the NDP. Not that he has to spend the night in a nine-star hotel. But people would be right to wonder what's up with the NDP if he has to pay for a plane ticket out of pocket, and be billetted like some foreign exchange student. Geez, why not hitchhike if it's that bad.