Jack Layton Has Passed Away

[Crusader]

August 20, 2011

Toronto, Ontario

 

Dear Friends,

 

Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your spirit and love have lit up my home, my spirit, and my determination.

 

Unfortunately my treatment has not worked out as I hoped. So I am giving this letter to my partner Olivia to share with you in the circumstance in which I cannot continue.

I recommend that Hull-Aylmer MP Nycole Turmel continue her work as our interim leader until a permanent successor is elected.

 

I recommend the party hold a leadership vote as early as possible in the New Year, on approximately the same timelines as in 2003, so that our new leader has ample time to reconsolidate our team, renew our party and our program, and move forward towards the next election.

 

A few additional thoughts:

 

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don

[saturnine]

a politico to the end and beyond.

[Crusader]

who will fill the moustache void?

[Moonlight_Graham]

a politico to the end and beyond.

 

Yeah. That was a bit weird about his letter, and also i guess expected. Jack was a typical politician who blew smoke up the ass like all the rest. But he was a fighter and a leader, RIP.

 

Cancer sucks.

[Computer]

Jack was a typical politician who blew smoke up the ass like all the rest.

 

This. It's sad news that he had to die this way, but I think people are making him out to be someone that he wasn't. His whole political schtick was that he was different from other politicians, when he really wasn't.

[saturnine]

are we all so jaded?

[Computer]

are we all so jaded?

 

I definitely am after 5 years in political science.