Oxfam Canada, where Fox later became executive director, was an initiating organization of the Leap Manifesto, so it would be surprising if his comments about it were anything other than positive and welcoming.
If nothing else, his appointment at the NDP's new national director might encourage ridings to sponsor discussions of the manifesto within the NDP, as mandated by the party's federal convention in Edmonton earlier this year.
The party leadership didn't support and hasn't to date acted on the convention resolution, which was vehemently attacked by the NDP government in Alberta together with some unions tied to the fossil fuels industry. They want the party to take as much distance as it can from the Leap Manifesto.
Fox recognizes the party is atrophying and needs to reach out to the environmental and other movements if it is not to be outflanked by the Greens and Liberals who are competing for the same constituencies on the centre left of the Canadian political spectrum.
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