Rex Murphy, NP: I believe it was a theory in the early days of Jagmeet Singh’s rise to the top of the NDP (a hillock, not a mountain) that he was just the man to take on Justin Trudeau, on Mr. Trudeau’s own turf. The word “natty” occurred a lot in those assessments, there being a whole harvest of articles about Mr. Singh’s fastidious personal style. No less an oracle than BuzzFeed — Debrett’s for Valley girls — declared him the “most stylish politician in Canada by like a million kilometres” (a whole lot).
The sum of all this is that Mr. Singh was not/is not the potential rival of Justin Trudeau in any of the categories he was originally thought to be, that the early bright flashes were more or less the highpoint. Should he lose in Burnaby, there are some in his party who will see that as a relief, a chance to try again for someone at the top to bring the party back to — at least — Tom Mulcair’s level of performance. And should he win, aside from escalating the intense frictions nationally and provincially on pipeline access, it will be more an exercise in salvage than a victory as such.
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