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B.C. NDP leadership race shaping up
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Last Edited | User 13 Nov 18, 2003 01:17pm |
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News Date | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | An aboriginal child care worker who's learned to drive the treacherous logging roads of northern British Columbia and a Vancouver Island lawyer are considered the top contenders to take over leadership of the province's decimated New Democratic Party.
New Democrats are electing a new leader on Nov. 23 to replace the retiring Joy MacPhail who has been leading a meagre two-member opposition since the May 2001 election that saw Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberals win 77 of 79 seats.
Prior to that disaster, the NDP had governed British Columbia for 10 of the last 12 years.
Aboriginal child-care worker Carole James and lawyer Leonard Krog, who served as a one-term backbencher in former NDP premier Mike Harcourt's government in the early 1990s, are expected to arrive at the Nov. 21-23 leadership convention as dual frontrunners.
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