What Jagmeet Singh's victory should mean for minorities

At the end of the day, Jagmeet Singh’s victory as leader of the embattled federal NDP wasn’t all that surprising. He’s young, charismatic, well-dressed, of minority origin (read non-white). That last one was probably more of a clincher than we would like to admit, given his relatively average performance in defining his mandate. And he probably had Justin Trudeau to thank a little, what with all the groundwork the prime minister laid through his “because it’s 2015&r