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

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CBC;

Lea Vivot is planning three different bronze statues of Jack Layton and hopes to have them installed on Parliament Hill, in his Toronto riding and in Hudson, Quebec, where the late NDP leader was raised.

This one has possibilities….

She says one of the sculptures features Layton on his bike.

h/t syncrodox

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

  1. Judging by the comments over on CBC’s article, even they are getting a little tired of Jack’s never ending canonization.

  3. I’m going to need a large dog and a short leash for when they put that statue up. Great Dane, possibly a Newfoundland. Something with a really voluminous bladder…

  4. will there also be a co-ordinating statue of the pollution-belching limo that followed Saint Jack with his briefcase and papers, while he was on the sainted bike??

  7. Damn, you guys beat me to it.
    Anyway, I’m hoping that if they do put up any statues of this moron that I will be able to get my hands on some dynamite pretty quickly.

  8. I wonder if Vivot will whine like a liitle beeyotch if she isn’t made the centre of attention at the unveiling.
    Again.

  9. Hey, anyone have any photoshop skills and can make up an “artist’s rendering” of a potential Layton statue? Would be fun to make up a rendering of him on a bed getting a “shiatsu”.

  10. That’s a terrific idea, Robert L! How about it, Kate? A Photoshop contest for the best representation of Jack Layton and what he stood (or lay down) for…

  12. A career politician, Jack Layton lived his entire life on other people’s taxes(except for a stint as a professor teaching political science during which only some of his income was from taxes) and accomplished nothing of note except to position the NDP as a receptacle for the Liberal Left’s votes.
    Where, I ask, are any of the accomplishments that would justify such public recognition or remembrance of this man?

  13. There is a college town in the US which shall remain nameless. Said town has a commemorative bronze statue of a Civil War personage astride his horse. The horse, surprisingly, is anatomically correct.
    It has become an annual prank for the students at the college to polish the genitalia of the horse to a brilliant shine, while leaving the rest of the statue green with age.
    I’m just saying, is all.

  15. Not on parliament hill.
    Seriously, when do opposition leaders get statues?
    This is ridiculous.
    Hudson, fine if they want to do it.
    Toronto, sure outside the rub and tug or outsde the co-op he and Olivia lived in. If the city wants…
    Parliament Hill, absolutely not.
    My choice, name a wind farm off the Scarborough Bluffs after him. Green energy and a blow hard….nice fit

  17. Really sad display of Dipper weakness – they have a huge void where radical secularism displaced their spitituality. However, they always attempt to parody religious faith and spritualism with their own saints and martyrs – in the end its all just so much political posturing, cold blooded political posing devoid of human feeling or spirituality – sad really.

  19. Why not at toronto Danforth Union Hall center; I am sure that the union bosses would waste no time putting up Jack’s statute in front of their bld.

  21. “I’m going to need a large dog and a short leash for when they put that statue up. Great Dane, possibly a Newfoundland. Something with a really voluminous bladder…”
    Posted by: The Phantom at September 26, 2011 11:41 AM
    If jacko’s statue is to be further graced after it’s been “erected” I’m thinking that maybe a wider variety of bodily fluids might be appropriate.

  22. He would be perfect for the three dollar bill.
    Make it a coin of iron and clay.
    We could call it the “Troika”.
    It would portray Jack’s finest hour when he shook hands with the other 2 traitors right after they signed the coalition deal following the 2008 election they lost.

  24. Jack Layton. A communist for every season. If they want a stature of this Lenin would be, pay for it yourself you lefty losers. Including the land it sits on. Not one tax dime for this massage boy.

  26. And to think I was heart broken when Jack died because the potential entertainment died with him. I had visions of him being strung up in some Quebec courtyard within 2 or 3 years much like Mussolini was in Italy, when Quebecers realised they had screwed up again by electing this snake oil salesman. Wish Elizabeth May had won more seats to fill the void. The statue thingy will hold me for now but it will be a long cold winter without Jack. Libby Davis would have done nicely.

  27. Zero tax dollars. Not in Ottawa. Put it next to tommy’s statue in Wayburn, if anywhere. Stupidest idea ever x3.

  28. If Vivot wishes to waste her time and her own money on creating a statue for an unremarkable, disingenuous and perenially third-rate career trough-feeder, let her fill her boots.
    The seemingly endless worship of Layton has moved far beyond tedious and into the realm of irritating. Personally the only two statues that come to mind that would personify Jack Layton would be:
    a) Shaking hands with his two traitorous coalition buddies
    b) Pushing people aside in a bar in order to get his leering mug as close to the TV camera as possible

  29. Prediction: Someone will cut off his famous appendage and sell it as scrape metal, for small change.

  31. They can save some money by heading over to Russia and seeing if they can buy a few “surplus” statues of Lenin. The two look much alike anyway and they were pretty aligned in their policies.

  32. If bronze Jack had trouble dismounting his bronze bike, would you help Jack off his bronze bike?
    Ba Dingba.

  34. The good news is, they’re going to name a ship after Jack Layton.
    The bad news is, it’ll be a tugboat.

  35. “Put it next to tommy’s statue in Wayburn”
    Bad idea. We Saskatchewanians put a big dent in the socialist rat population in 2007 and we aim to finish the job this November. A statue of Layton would be more appropriately located in a province where socialism is still in vogue … say, Manitoba, for instance.

  36. I hope the damn statues aren’t more than 2500 pounds, as I don’t want to go over weight on the way to the scrap yard:-)))

  37. As his lips displayed an impish grin, Vivot gently shook his head at the 4th suggestion, that of a bronze likeness of Jack’s butt protruding from the Parliamentary lawn. The Butt could be thus either kissed or kicked.

  40. Vivot’s art sounds like a statuary triptych. First Jacko is riding his bicycle to the Velvet Touch, second he is walking upstairs for a shiatsu, finally he is lying on the rub ‘n’ tug bench being serviced.
    The third bronze should capture Jacko’s surprised expression when his happy ending was interrupted by the vice squad.
    I wonder if Jacko’s criticism of Metro Police was curbed by the fear that his shiatsu adventure could be revealed anytime. He was on Toronto City Council at the time.

  42. Jack Layton’s statue SHOULD be of one on his bike… followed by the limo that carried his paperwork… and by a poor fellow pink-slipped and unable to get affordable housing because Jack and his widow lived in subsidised housing when they could have afforded something else.

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