OTTAWA — Federal New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh emerged from his party’s national convention with a strong mandate to overcome the many challenges ahead for the NDP to beat the Liberals at their own game and deliver in 2019. Memories of the NDP’s disappointing showing in the 2015 campaign — and the discord that plagued the party’s last convention in 2016 — were still fresh in the minds of many delegates. Meanwhile, the party remains stalled in the polls and failed to gain much ground in several recent byelections. He believed the path that Singh began to chart at the convention was the right place to start. He also refused to say whether he would quit as leader in 2019 if the party fell short of expectations.

Source: National Post February 18, 2018 22:05 UTC