NDP Leadership Campaign Begins
Submitted on September 15, 2011
By Keith Jones - 14 September 2011
Brian Topp, the president of the New Democratic Party (NDP), has become the first declared candidate in the race to succeed the late Jack Layton as federal NDP leader...Topp, who became party president in June...has only had a modest public profile till now. But he was among Layton’s closest and most-trusted advisers and has longstanding ties to both the party officialdom and the trade union bureaucracy.
