Walkom: Peggy Nash pitches a pragmatic radicalism to her NDP

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Peggy Nash is the practical radical.

The Toronto MP didn’t use those words when she formally announced her bid for the New Democratic Party leadership Friday at a trendy Parkdale hotel. But that’s what she meant.

The platform she sketched out to about 150 supporters is straight-up NDP orthodoxy: address social inequality; improve child care; protect the environment; deal with aboriginal poverty; and finally, boost corporate taxes to pay for it all.

You wouldn’t find many in the eight-person race to replace former leader Jack Layton, arguing with that.

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