Opposition Leader
Dexter was Opposition Leader to both Conservative Premier John Hamm and Rodney MacDonald. He credited is ability to work with Hamm to get things done as the reason for the NDP increase in seats in the 2006 election.
Within a few months of the 2006 election, the NDP took a lead in the opinion polls, and has held it consistently since.
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Famous quotes containing the words opposition and/or leader:
“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,—let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
—Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 1788–1879, U.S. novelist, poet and women’s magazine editor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 36-40 (December 1828)
“To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)