Calling for Mr. Cullen

While the British Columbia NDP continue to accept resumes for the position of leader for the party, a federal MP from the province is feeling some pressure from back home to step into the contest.

Nathan Cullen, the MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley has been busy these last few days answering phone calls and receiving e mail requests that he change his political compass to Victoria from Ottawa.

In his home riding local media has been quick to pick up on the theme of Cullen returning home to take a shot at the NDP leadership in the province, the Terrace Standard offered up this review of the efforts to bring him home thus far. 

While the regional TV station CFTK provided this look at the draft Cullen plans, over on Haida Gwaii, the QCI Observer made note of the push to have Cullen come back to the province as well.

The idea of Mr. Cullen entering the race was first floated in the days following the political coup launched by the dissidents of the NDP, at the time Cullen offered up the thought that while flattered he still had work to do in Ottawa.

At the time he provided these talking points for CFTK, the Terrace Standard and Prince Rupert's Northern View.

However, as the last month has evolved, he seems to be softening his stance on the provincial leadership race, leaving open perhaps a crack in the door for his entry.

A few observers of the current troubles of the NDP have suggested that an entry by Mr. Cullen, distanced as he is from the recent coup of the dissidents, he may be the one political move that will bring the fractious NDP back into a cohesive unit able to take on whichever Liberal comes out of that party's current leadership process.

Update: Mr. Cullen it seems is sticking with his original plan, in a press release provided through his website on Monday afternoon, the MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley advises that he's going to stick with his Federal ambitions.


The Terrace Standard offered up this review of events.