and if Dana Larsen is persona non grata in the NDP then it is his own doing.
I actually expect that there will be an effort to formally revoke my NDP membership. I have already heard through the grapevine that this effort is underway.
And since I have now been convicted (without trial) of vote-buying, it doesn't seem a big step to revoke my membership from the party entirely.
It will be tricky for Brad Lavigne to orchestrate this, because NDP memberships are controlled provincially, not federally. However, I don't have many powerful friends in the party, so I doubt anyone would bother going to bat in my defense if there was a concerted effort to oust me entirely.
I know that when the ON NDP took away the membership of Buzz Hargrove, he didn't get any kind of hearing, he just got dumped. So I don't know if I would ever get a chance to formally defend myself against these accusations, and probably I would just get an emailed letter informing me that my membership in the NDP had been revoked.