Jack Layton has passed away this morning.
He was that odd thing which confuses everyone - a decent politician. He was genuinely liked and respected throughout the nation. If anything, people thought he was too naive and not cynical enough to be playing teh game. And yet he lead his party to a historic showing in the last election, the first non-Conservative and non-Liberal to be elected Leader of the Opposition.
A hippie and an idealist. The guy was a complete and total dork - but in that honest and endearing way. This is him on the campaign trail for that historic election:
It does seem like a smaller world without Jack in it.
2011-08-22
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Sort of like a Paul Wellstone?
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A little moar to teh left and a little dorkier. Also supported by teh youth vote - a number of teh new Quebec MP's elected under Layton's leadership are current university students.
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