OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Heather McPherson isn’t backing down from her claim that supporters of the party shouldn’t have to pass an ideological “purity test,” after a fellow NDP MP said she was “appalled” by her use of the term. Article content

“Listen, the idea of opening up our table, and making us a party that welcomes more people in, is the exact point of that,” McPherson told National Post in an interview on Wednesday. Article content

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McPherson said at her Edmonton campaign launch on Sunday that the NDP needed to get back to its founding ideal of helping all Canadians to move forward.

“We need to stop shrinking into some sort of purity test, we need to stop pushing people away and we need to invite people in,” said McPherson.

But

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