Jack Layton was our MP and, though I never got to meet him in person, I heard him speak a few times and remember feeling at the last election that the wave of orange that brought the NDP to the status of official opposition last election was well deserved. I always felt like Layton cared, like he was genuine.
Who knows how he would have handled the position of Leader of the Opposition. His choice of (temporary) successor suggests that he would have fought hard for the needs the working folk, a voice that we are missing in politics, a voice that was needed. One imagines that he might have done a fine job.
It is sad that he won't have the chance to have a go. Ironic, in the mundane sense, that he reached a pinnacle only to be felled by disease. Cancer is such a traitor.
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