If the NDP honours Jack Layton’s dying wish to hold a leadership convention in January to select his successor—as a top party backroomer predicts will occur—the speedy time frame would severely limit Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair’s chances or kill them, two senior New Democrats say.

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