MPP Sarah Jama kicked out of NDP caucus

[Corktowner]

Steve Paikin's piece is good.

I think the issue with Sarah Jama isn't just what she said or didn't say, but the fact that she was acting unilaterally and refusing to be a team player. She posted a statement that wasn't approved by the party and didn't align with the party's own messaging. When they ordered her to take it down, she refused and in fact pinned it to the top of her feed. She launched a lawsuit against Doug Ford without warning the party that she was doing so. On the day of the censure vote, she gave a speech in the legislature that was apparently very different than the speech the party expected her to give. Etc. etc. etc. How can the party leadership or the rest of the caucus possibly be expected to work with someone who acts like that?

Like Ritsman, I was really surprised when she announced she was running for the NDP, and I'm not all surprised that she unravelled. I wasn't expecting it to happen so soon, but I think it was pretty much inevitable that she would go out in a blaze of glory and burn bridges at some point.