Barry Weisleder (Co-Chair of the NDP Socialist Caucus) is just stunned over the fact Jagmeet Singh personally intervened to get the NDP federal convention cancelled. He writes in a letter to the editor below
It was good to see Jagmeet Singh get some positive coverage post-election, but why has the NDP federal council, at the urging of Singh, cancelled the NDP federal convention, which the party constitution requires be held in 2020? Instead, the council put off the convention to late 2021.
NDP conventions are typically money-makers. Moreover, they are vital venues for members to have their say. Future funding and internal democracy are two elements that the NDP now desperately needs.
Is fear of a leadership review a reason for the cancellation? The loss of 20 seats since the 2015 election is bad, but may have been even worse had Singh not turned a little to the left to differentiate himself from the Liberal Party.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/letters-to-the-editor/animal-rights-doug-for...
Meanwhile the NDP Socialist Caucus is circulating a resolution that calls on the Federal Council and Leader to hold a convention in 2020. Jagmeet Singh told an NDP candidate in Vancouver in mid-December that the cancellation was “a done deal”. If the campaign to restore democracy falls on deaf ears one can also safely predict the rank and file will strike with a vengeance against this coup at the first opportunity.
Read "Coup by NDP Brass Aims to Block Assessment of Singh" below
http://ndpsocialists.ca/coup-by-ndp-brass-aims-to-block-assessment-of-si...