“Outremont was always a difficult riding for us,' the NDP leader says.
, in a 2007 byelection. Mulcair's win gave the party a foothold in the battleground province that culminated in the NDP winning 59 seats in a general election four years later. Under Mulcair's leadership, the party won just 16 seats in Quebec in 2015. He stepped down as an MP in the summer.
Singh was also asked if his shots at SNC-Lavalin, the Quebec-based engineering giant at the centre of the controversy dogging Liberals, might hamper his party's support in the province. The corporation employs about 9,000 people across Canada. facing fraud and bribery charges from its dealings in Libya, to avoid a trial that could hurt the company and spur layoffs.
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