Mulcair paints NDP as ethical alternative to corrupt Tories, Liberals

OTTAWA – Tom Mulcair is trying to cast the NDP as the ethical antidote to Conservative and Liberal corruption.

The federal NDP leader is using a speech today to paint the so-called old-line parties as two peas in a pod — tired, unaccountable, self-serving, corrupted by the pursuit of power.

Mulcair says the Conservatives have become part of the culture of entitlement their precursors in the Reform party rode into Ottawa to change.

And he contends the Liberals have become so dominated by corruption that they’re incapable of changing their ways, no matter who leads the party.

Mulcair doesn’t mention Justin Trudeau by name but says the Liberals periodically choose “a new saviour,” promise to change their unethical ways — only to end up delivering, in Mulcair’s words, nothing but broken promises and broken hearts.

New Democrats have never won power federally and Mulcair tries to turn that to his advantage, maintaining the NDP will turn the page on the tired, corrupt record of successive Conservative and Liberal governments.