OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh’s campaign says its rivals are “confused,” denying allegations from fellow NDP leadership contender Charlie Angus’s campaign that the membership sign-up numbers Singh’s camp has claimed don’t add up. This, added with Singh’s announced sign-up numbers, is just 7,000 names short of the total list. Other candidates and provincial branches of the NDP would surely have added more than that to the pile, Brady contended, so how could Singh’s numbers be accurate? Michal Hay, Singh’s campaign manager, has now denied the inference that her organization either messed up the numbers or deliberately inflated them. In any case, it is not possible to double-check numbers put out by campaigns because party membership lists are kept confidential.

Source: National Post September 01, 2017 20:37 UTC