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Originally Posted by octothorp

So, Harper's pre-screened, vetted audiences didn't do him any favours today. Old white guy yells at reporters and calls them lying pieces of s***, after the crowd tries to shout down reporters asking Harper questions about the Duffy scandal.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cana...ions-1.3194754

This video is pretty embarrassing, too.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cana...ions-1.3193576

In other news, some pretty damning words about Mulcair from a former NDP MP.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08...n_7996188.html

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is just as dictatorial as Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, says New Democrat turned-Green MP Bruce Hyer.

In a Facebook post Sunday, Hyer said that if voters handed Mulcair and the NDP a majority government this fall, Canadians would be on their way to enjoying “another dictatorial Prime Minister.”

“Mulcair is a ruthless man who will say and do anything to get elected. Just like Stephen Harper,” wrote Hyer, the incumbent candidate in the Ontario riding of Thunder Bay–Superior North. “He certainly is not Jack Layton, and the NDP is no longer the Democratic Party that it was under Jack Layton.”

Since Layton’s death, Hyer said, the NDP now stands for “Non Democratic Party.”

Mulcair exercises “ruthless control” over the messaging of his candidates, Hyer wrote. The new leader made all votes in the Commons “whipped," he said, meaning that NDP MPs must vote the party line, even on issues not related to the party’s platform.

When he was still in the NDP caucus, Hyer said he was told that if he didn’t follow the voting wishes of the leader and the party, he would be “punished” and his nomination papers would not be signed.

In 2012, Hyer — elected in 2008 and 2011 under the NDP banner — left the party after Mulcair did not include him in his shadow cabinet. He had voted in favour of scrapping the long-gun registry earlier, to keep a promise he said he made to his constituents. In 2013, he crossed the floor and joined the Greens.