Let’s Install A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton*

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They have to replace those old CCF’ers somehow…

Possible federal NDP leadership hopeful Libby Davies […] has introduced a motion calling on the government to open the federal pension to recent immigrants who’ve made few, if any, contributions into Canada’s state pension system.
That could also grant new arrivals access to the guaranteed income supplement.

*Yes – I’ve elevated that post title to Official Category.
Related.
Update: Run Libby, Run!” (h/t Marina)

37 Replies to “Let’s Install A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton*”

  1. This is the way people collect Air Miles. The more you spend, the more Air Miles you collect.
    The more wogs you buy the more votes you get.
    It’s disgusting and treasonous.
    Thank heavens Jack died, that outta slow those one world commies down a bit. Jack was a very creepy politician, but very clever. What is left behind is a sea of vapid collectivists who will not be as clever and therefore not as effective.

  3. Would love to have Libby Davies lead the ndp. As long as we don’t have to look at her.

  5. Thomas Mulcair is a better candidate, by far. He’d be perfectly placed to destroy any credibility that the NDP has remaining and forever destroy any illusions about what they really represent, or want to do to this country.
    Even the Partie Quebecois would love him, even if he’s Anglo/Irish, whatever.

  6. They need the distinguished and gentlemanly Pat Martin as da boss…That would guarantee Queerbec would vote out the NDP in droves come next election and relegate the NDP back to it’s 15~20 seats where it truly belongs.

  7. The future leader(s) of the NDP will be doomed to unfair comparisons to the newly created Saint Jack. It will be a replay of the recent LPC leadership revolving door. This could overshadow and exacerbate the conflict between the Quebec and Western NDP factions.

  9. Now that Jack is a good communist we will be able to truly see the NDP as it really is. A bunch of whack job anti-semites who would buy votes from immigrants with our tax dollars.

  10. Is Argue resting in Regina or Moose Jaw?
    Wheat Pool needs to know where to hang Jack’s portrait; to the right or to the left of the Rev. T.C. Douglas?
    “Argue is the only former leader of the CCF or NDP whose portrait is not on the walls of NDP headquarters.”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazen_Argue

  11. Libby would be about as useful as Lizzy Mae as a parliamentary leader, let alone Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Hang on, wouldn’t green and orange go together? We can only wish, eh.

  12. Looking at the plus side – Libby wants to:
    “force the Canadian International Development Agency to serve only “fair trade coffee” at functions and its headquarters.”
    Please run Libby, please run for the leadership of the NDP.

  13. I have a better idea. Lets mandate 75% of all MP salaries deducted to provide pensions for new immigrants.

  14. I have no problem with Libby Davies idea if they implement it using the salaries of the NDP MP’s. Since the NDP only does things for compassionate reasons (they’re not in it for the money like the greedy capitalist Conservatives), I’m sure NDP MP’s wouldn’t mind if we cut their salaries to minimum wage — about $20,000 yearly — and use the rest of the money to help immigrants (most MP’s are already independently wealthy anyway, so it’s not like NDP MP’s would end up in the poor house).
    So the remaining $100,000 yearly times X 102 NDP Members of Parliament equals = $12,000,000 (twelve million) dollars yearly, plus cumulative interest, for pensions for non-contributing new immigrants. After 10 years the fund would be worth close to two-hundred million ($200,000,000.00) dollars.
    Just imagine, 5 new immigrant families could live on the excess salary of a single MP alone like Libby Davies if only Davies and the NDP would “put their money where their mouth is.”
    In the spirit of Jack Layton, who apparently “died for his country” according Davies, I’m sure she wouldn’t mind giving up $100,000 yearly of her personal salary to new immigrants instead of making poor working class Canadians foot the bill…

  16. “love is better than anger”?
    Some people love anger, is their love of anger better than the anger?
    “Hope is better than fear”?
    Somme people hope others fear them.
    “Optimism is better than despair”?
    Some people are optimistic others will despair.
    Beware of socialist platitudes.

  17. Welcome NDP Canadian Guests..
    Lets see.
    I move to Canada.
    Give the clinic services a sob story about having Post-Traumatic Stress, for not having moved to Canada during the Vietnam War.
    ‘PLEASE HELP ME,
    I FOUGHT AN UNJUST WAR!’
    sign up for massive govt. benefits, fresh housing,
    and natural food vouchers..
    buy a new computer and write articles and emails to NDP about how
    i need- i need..

  18. It wont matter who they pick to lead the party. Layton was the modern Mulrooney. He was able to ‘talk’ to quebeckers in their own language. Street lingo, code words that they understand. Sure he has an anglo name but he is ‘one of us’, the same as lyin brian.
    The quebec voters ballot is purchased. He sells his loyality. Next time around he will sell it to another higher bidder. Fortunately for Jacques he wont be around next election to witness the quebecker commitment.

  19. Does anyone else find it “odd” that no enterprising journo has had the gumption to write
    an expose about the dynamics involved in dumping the Bloc on the trash heap post haste
    in pre election Quebec? For what purpose? How was the word passed?
    If an NDP transitional “spheres of influence informal coalition” with the Liberals led by
    Ontario’s Bob Rae is upcoming, that pretty much rules out any viable new NDP leader
    from anywhere other than Quebec.

  20. Libby Davies has qualifications the NDP will have a hard time to pass over for leadership. The top ones are she’s female, she’s lesbian and she was chosen by Layton as one of his deputy leaders.

  21. While Libby is in the mood to give things away, I’d like a Ferrari please. A red Dino, and new tires because I really like to smoke ’em at the stoplights, ok?
    Because hey, I have as much right to a Ferrari Dino on the Canadian taxpayer as a new immigrant has to Federal Old Age Pension.

  22. Libby is truly an amazing woman,with little efort she has made Elizabeth May appear both smart and attractive.
    Libby for Leader.

  24. Re: the new category.
    Why settle for a ‘Jack came here’ sign in front of a massage parlour when we can make a whole museum out of the subsided housing Jack and Olivia enjoyed. Hazelburn Museum, how classy does that sound? Clear out the riff-raff, add a $7 dollar ‘suggested donation’ sign and bam! – a 6 figure curator career is offered up for a well connected comrade.

  26. I just heard on the radio that the NDP is now saying that the motion submitted by Libby Davis was “submitted in error”. No further explanation was provided.
    The re-election of Libby Davis was also “in error”. Just how stupid can voters be???

  27. Oh, come on,they are from vaneast man, they want it all and they want it now, so everyone else should get it to, DUH.

  28. Mr. Day mentions the “loss and passing of somebody”.
    Who died? Any breaking news on Our CBC?
    ““The great thing about all the sensitivities and how you have to be careful about the loss and the passing of somebody, the Conservatives can hit hard about the economic differences: the NDP want to raise taxes and raise spending, the Conservatives want to go in another direction,” Mr. Day said.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/with-opposition-parties-in-chaos-tories-focus-on-tone/article2147548/

  32. “Among Davies’ other motions are calls to guarantee a ‘right to welfare’ and force the Canadian International Development Agency to serve only ‘fair trade coffee’ at functions and its headquarters.”
    She’s DEEP.

  33. The term “run Libby run” just doesn’t work! Please use “Libby might try for top commie office” or Libby goes for the head of NDPEE, but the visual of Libby running just cannot work.

  34. Libby Davies has seniority, so she should get the job. Who needs merit anyway?
    Then the NDP will fixate on Israel to the detriment of all else (leaving the PM to govern undisturbed), followed by implosion at the next election.

  35. and already the g&m is damning jacko with faint praise….or is it just damning ? either way works for me…let the dwindling of the dippers back to their proper spot (tied at 15% with the liebrals) begin
    Jack Layton: One stunning triumph does not a visionary make
    JEFFREY SIMPSON | Columnist profile | E-mail
    From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
    Published Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 2:00AM EDT
    Last updated Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011 8:34AM EDT
    Not since the death of Wilfrid Laurier in 1919 had a leader of the opposition died in office. So the country found itself in rather a protocol void after the death of NDP Leader Jack Layton.
    Mr. Layton’s political beatification, including his own testament published posthumously, was a mixture of the calculated and the spontaneous. Without the central tragedy of his death, at the moment of his greatest triumph and at the cruelly young age of 61, it’s doubtful the whole affair would have achieved the resonance and poignancy it did.
    Other political leaders who had been given state funerals had died after leaving office, their political trails blazed and finished. But here was someone who, having laboured in the relative obscurity of leading a third or fourth party, suddenly found himself and his party where they’d never been before, except perhaps in their dreams.
    NDP strategists then wrapped this very human tragedy in the embrace of partisanship, a very normal reaction from them but something that gave the impression of events being used at least partially for political ends. Perhaps this is what Mr. Layton wanted, too. After all, he was offering political advice about what should happen after his death before he died. Rather than ask that any donations be sent to, say, the Cancer Society, he asked that they be directed to the fledging Broadbent Institute that’s supposed to become another left-wing think tank.
    It has been often remarked that the outpouring of affection for Mr. Layton stemmed, in part, from his “vision.” Canadians, it’s asserted, hunger for what he offered them. That’s precisely what the New Democrats who helped to plan the events and write his beautiful letter, and spoke in Toronto at his funeral, wanted everyone to believe, for they believe it themselves. Let’s remember, however, that a strong majority of Canadians did not vote for Mr. Layton’s party, just as a majority did not support Stephen Harper.
    Indeed, Mr. Harper’s party got more votes than Mr. Layton’s, and no one has yet described Mr. Harper as a visionary. Reading the election results properly would suggest a sizable minority of Canadians warmed to Mr. Layton’s vision, but the majority did not hunger for it at all. The largest number might just be anti-visionary voters of the kind that endorsed Mr. Harper.
    Mr. Layton was a mainstream New Democrat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. His “vision,” if you wish to use that expression, was almost to the letter that of his predecessors. That this “vision” caught fire, and made Mr. Layton posthumously into a “visionary” offering the kind of politics for which Canadians hunger, must leave his predecessors as rather less effective than him – which does many of them an injustice.
    Timing can be almost everything in politics, and so it was for Mr. Layton in the last election. He played the same hand he always played, only this time some of his opponents misread theirs.
    Mr. Layton had one stunning triumph, and only one: the last election. He might have had more, or perhaps that election was his last, best innings. We shall never know. The unknowable – the possibility of greatness manqué – added to the beatification. Admirable as Mr. Layton was, it’s doubtful that, had he actually been prime minister and had to make hard decisions, he would have been so popular. That, too, we shall never know.
    Unknowable, now, is whether the radiance of his memory (Mr. Layton was always more popular than the NDP) will light the path for his successor. These are trying times for leftish parties, with conservatives in office (or soon to be) in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Sweden, the U.S. House of Representatives and a majority of U.S. state capitals. Whatever his admirable qualities, Barack Obama has certainly not been much of a liberal, let alone anything remotely like a social democrat.
    No doubt, each NDP leadership candidate will insist that he or she best reflects Mr. Layton’s “vision,” the one, it’s asserted, for which Canadians so hunger.

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