Former MLA Corky Evans has written this letter and given us permission to share it:

I think that the current, and very public, troubles inside the NDP
must be hugely confusing to citizens. In order to try to help folks
better understand the debacle I am inclined to try and offer some
history about how political parties function in times of stress and how
mine (and ours) has functioned over the last few weeks.

Leadership, in any Party, is not a right. Every Leader understands
that they serve the Party they lead. Power, of course, is addictive and
extremely difficult to abandon. This is true in all institutions from
the family to a community group to a company to a political party. Power
is also isolating. When we have power we have a position of status and
we tend to be surrounded by people who support our status and may even
benefit from our position by virtue of their wages or their ambition.
Surrounded, as we are by such people, we lose contact with the views of
the citizenry at large and need the intervention of others, outside our
circle, to tell us what is really going on.

Read full letter here