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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks during the Saskatchewan NDP leadership convention in Saskatoon, Sask., March 9, 2013. (Liam Richards/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
John Ibbitson
Mulcair reassures Washington, but his real audience is back home
John Ibbitson
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Thomas Mulcair’s speech Wednesday to the Woodrow Wilson Center stresses the ties between New Democrats and President Barack Obama. Americans in the audience might be bemused by the comparison. But like almost all foreign speeches by Canadian politicians, the real audience is back home.