CAW Boss Calls for NDP-Liberal Merger

One of the more powerful labour leaders in the country tells the NDP to learn a lesson or two from Stephen Harper.

Canadian Auto Workers boss Ken Lewenza has added his voice to the clutch of MPs who think the NDP and Liberals should merge. While our opinions about this idea have already been aired, Lewenza, who heads one of the biggest and most powerful unions in the country, says the two parties should take a cue from Stephen Harper's successful merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives and go about doing the same for the left. Lewenza said as much in a letter to NDP MP Pat Martin, the lone member of his caucus who's openly floated the idea, saying he would run for the party's leadership on a proposal to do so. All the other people rumoured to be after the NDP leadership, notably Thomas Mulcair and party president Brian Topp, have batted away any such suggestion, while two Liberals, Denis Coderre and Justin Trudeau, have casually flirted with the notion of uniting the left.

The Mark News weighs in on the "Merger Madness". Read more here.