Condolences to Jack's family and friends.
Conservatives, you may continue thanking the millions of Liberal supporters who lent their votes to Harper at the last minute in May to prevent Layton becoming Prime Minister.
Because now the PM would be a former Quebec separatist, instead of a former Alberta separatist.
Though sad, Layton's death wasn't entirely unexpected, so in retrospect I am glad the Liberal voters again saved Canada this year.
Despite the raft of laws that will have to be repealed when Harper is sent packing, he will likely continue trying to appease his Liberal vote lenders for the foreseeable future.
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I don't follow Canadian politics that close, but I dare say that they are as screwed as we are.
Of course they are. But like you, any democracy is always messier than sausage making.
Much of the rhetoric we see here, even this week, is directly imported from US political "discourse", with only the references to "red" and "blue" reversed for localization. Our outrageosphere is in a panic because so many people are able to admire a man who took his party from a rump to second place. They're angry that we're not all reflexively hating they guy simply because he has different political views. They're currently trying the US style "you dems think Obama is the Second Coming of Jesus" malarkey, intended to force people to say "oh he's not so great" or something.
Normal people here are saddened by Layton dying, but they're not going to start a new religion about it. Only the outrageosphere is saying that.
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