Trust the media to try putting an ethnic issue on the political table. The reason the NDP were all but wiped out in Quebec was because of the general population of Canada's did not approve of Mulcair. The Quebec wing of the party supported Tom's stupid position on Quebec's separation based on 50% plus one while the rest of the country said, HOLD ON HERE. Huge concessions were made for Quebec to join confederation and those perks if Quebec separates are open to national discussion. Quebec in or out, isn't at the sole discretion of Quebecers as there has to be a settling of accounts. So with the NPD leader and the Quebec wing of the NDP out of sync with the rest of the country even Qeubecers saw the futility of supporting a political party that had no chance of ever becoming a real political force in this great country of ours and jumped off the NDP bandwagon.