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Canada is weaker without Layton’s passion, conviction and smile
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 22, 2011 10:23am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | John Ibbitson |
| Media | Newspaper - Toronto Globe and Mail |
| News Date | Monday, August 22, 2011 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jack Layton’s passing leaves a hole in the moral centre of Canadian political life.
Though politically shrewd, and sometimes tough with both opponents and caucus allies, there was at his core a righteous optimism – a faith in the possibility of government to craft a better world – that made him a pleasure and a privilege to know.
That he leaves this world at the apogee of political success, having taken the federal NDP from a party in danger of extinction to Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, is something we can and should mourn.
But clichéd though this will sound, we can and we must also celebrate that life and that success. Even those who shared few of his political convictions can appreciate the passion with which he held them, the astute political judgment that helped him advance them, and the principled foundations on which they rested. |
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