By Andrew Chung - from the Toronto Star
BERTHIERVILLE, QUE.—Claudette Labbée has seen a lot of things in her 70 years. But she’s never seen anything like the awkward situation involving her newly elected rookie MP, Ruth Ellen Brosseau.
“Maybe she can be responsible. But she doesn’t seem responsible the way she’s acting . . . ,” she said.
Labbée thought that even if she didn’t know the NDP candidate before election day, Brosseau would be there after her stunning victory.
But Brosseau’s whereabouts are still unknown. She has given no interviews.
The case of the invisible MP is just one of several fronts the New Democrats are fighting as they try to protect the young and the restless before taking over as the official Opposition.
The age and inexperience of the 58 NDP MPs elected in Quebec — among them, several university students — has come under fire, as have comments by the 19-year-old MP-elect in Sherbrooke, who said, “Quebecers will decide if they want to be a country.”
And then there’s party deputy leader Thomas Mulcair musing about the existence of photos of Osama bin Laden’s body. Read more...
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