Just a few days after Jack Layton’s funeral, new merger talk has broken out between the NDP and the Liberals. On his flight home from the funeral, former prime minister Jean Chretien boasted to a journalist that his plans for a Liberal-NDP merger would have stopped the Conservatives from taking power this year. Denis Coderre [...]
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SHOULD THE NDP AND THE LIBERALS MERGE?
August 30, 2011WHAT DOES THE OUTPOURING FOR JACK LAYTON SAY ABOUT CANADIANS?
August 27, 2011You know the playbook on Canadians. We are laid-back, reserved, undemonstrative, mildly socialistic, usually back the United States and when the chips are down we come on as dullards with phony humility just like Uriah Heep. Well I guess the emotional outpouring for Jack from coast to coast to coast put paid to most of [...]
DID JACK LAYTON LEAVE A POLITICAL LEGACY?
August 22, 2011NDP leader Jack Layton dies this morning from cancer at the age of 61. Just a few months after leading the NDP to its greatest victory in federal politics, le bon Jack had the fruits of that victory suddenly snatched from him by death. Did Jack Layton leave a political legacy. Did he change the [...]
IS 50 PER CENT-PLUS-ONE ENOUGH FOR QUEBEC SEPARATION.?
May 27, 2011Almost half the NDP caucus in Ottawa comes from Quebec. There is no doubt there are some sovereignists in this group. Which is why NDP leader, Jack Layton, is struggling to clarify his position on Quebec’s separation from Canada. After several false starts Mr. Layton has fallen back on the NDP’s Sherbrooke Declaration of some [...]
