Mid-week podcast: should Mulcair stay or go?

Should he stay or should he go?

That's the big question facing NDP Leader Tom Mulcair as the party heads to Edmonton this week for their convention and leadership review.

Mulcair says he's not worried, but as calls for a change in leadership continue, we talk to two labour leaders making opposing cases for Mulcair's future. 

Mark Hancock is the national president of Canada's largest union,CUPE. He says Mulcair has proven himself as someone who will stand up and fight for unions.

"I see Tom as a real fighter," Hancock tells host Chris Hall.

"He's a scrapper. He's somebody I want to have in my corner if I'm going into a dispute."

Canadian Labour Congress president Hassan Youssef disagrees, arguing that Mulcair failed to seize his political opportunity in last fall's election.

"From the day Tom was elected to lead the party, he knew his destiny was Oct. 19, 2015 and he had everything to prepare for that moment," Youssef says.

"Is Tom the right guy, given he had the best shot to form government and he failed at it? It would be good to start with a fresh face and some new blood in the leadership."

Then, the politics — and the optics — of private and pricey third-party fundraisers. What's behind Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's sudden desire to reform the rules of private fundraising? 

Two reporters who have been covering the story, the Toronto Star's Rob Benzie and Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail, chat with Chris about one of the week's biggest stories.