'Tricky' Ms. PeggyBy Linda Diebel National Affairs Writer | Published On Fri Oct 28 2011
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1078004
Toronto MP Peggy Nash is running for the NDP leadership.
STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR Peggy Nash was born to be underestimated.
She's a woman who speaks softly and has a sweet sense about her. She winces at the word, but she's pretty. If she were an actress, she'd be cast as the lady with the lamp bending over a wounded soldier.
No threat here, surely. The MP for Parkdale-High Park and NDP finance critic sits in her Parkdale home with a cat in her lap and looks as if she wouldn't hurt a fly.
"But I never had rip-roaring fights," she says. She won her battles quietly.
"These weren't the kind of bread-and-butter issues like pay or pensions, but they were pretty important," she says. "A young gay man in an auto plant who's being bullied and threatened is pretty important too. . . A transgender person on the verge of a breakdown because neither the company or the union knew how to handle the situation is important."
