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

Linky no worky. Please fix.

Oh, I see it. Nevermind.

I'm seeing double.

Whoops! Bad cut and paste, link fixed.

This attempt by CBC, and the other leftist media sources, to deify Layton and to try and convince all Canadians that we are in mourning a year later is one of the lowest points in Canadian media history.
I didn't mourn the man when he died and don't need to be reminded of it annually.
I'm still trying to get the picture of him riding his bike to a massage parlour out of my head.

Is it legal for an MP to be paid for media work?

Would it be ok for say, Ezra Levant (just to name a name...) to be paid for work at SUN Tv if he was an elected Member of Parliament?

I just knew the Canadian taxpayers would be on the hook for this conglomeration of wet Kleenex. Do these effing leeches ever stop sucking the blood from Canadians?

Good comments at the link as well that I tend to agree with. "Saint Jack" was no saint. There seems to be a lot of evidence, along his tenure at the public trough, that he did quite well for himself and extended family along the way. Reminds me somewhat of that smooth talker holding down our friends to the south. If there isn't a double standard at work here then I'll eat my "right" sock.

bverwey

Olivia has just hit socialist-progressive heaven.

She gets to double dip on the taxpayers dime.

Fred,double dip,I think you are underestimating the widow Olivia.

I'm not sure,but I would not be surprised if she is collecting survivor benefits or something akin to that from Jack's pension plan.

She's likely a triple dipping dipper.

Has she moved out of subsidized housing yet?

At least with Olivia as advisor and CBC doing the movie we should get a preview of Jack walking on water and then turning water into wine. The scene where he accepts Mary Magdalene in the massage parlor should bring tears to all and be remembered for its impressive dialogue as well as the halo that encompasses his burly 6'6" frame. History will be written as we have never seen and only CBC is capable of such a epic with its world renowned reputation as the leader in non biased reporting. We can also expect to see it in re-runs every easter so it's true value for the millions spent. All those who compare this movie to flushing the toilet and watching that turd go round and round without leaving the bowl (you know who you are) are just right wing hate mongers that feel the CBC budget is about 1.1 billion too much and Quebec is not the hardest working province in Canada. Sour grapes that will be vindicated when best movie of the year is announced.

Layton, CBC & the NDP, skunks under the porch.Ya just can't get rid of them!

Time for the head of the CBC to be given his walking papers and someone be put in there with carte blanche
to order a clean out of the floor to ceiling height manure and to shine things up for a long overdue privatization.
It wouldn't hurt to give James Moore a demotion as well for his own lack of suitable action.

Found a couple of gems.
Enjoy:
Little Jack Dipper
Went to a stripper
Sampling some Asian Pie
Along came the Vice Squad
And said: 'Gotcha' You big Fraud!
And Jack went 'Wee, wee, wee, all the way home!

Come listen to a story ‘bout Taliban Jack
A poor little socialist looking for some crack
But things got kinda desparate with nothing round to screw
So he fired off his gun with the help of Madame Wu.

Well the next thing you know, Old Jack’s so debonair
Kin folks say “Jack move away from here”
“Ottawa with Iggy is the place you ought to be”
So he packed up the prius... but he died on SUN TV

It all stinks like the sh*thouse door on a fishing boat....

Double dipping??

She's a f&*king sitting MP for Christs sakes!!!

Cue Ethics watch-arse.

This is becoming more akin to a perverse twist on Monty Python. "But he's dead! No, he's not, . . . he's just sleeping".
I'm reminded of the eulogy to Kennedy, "Do not make of him in death more than he was in life, for what he was in life was enough." Well with Jack, that's certainly been turned on its head, "Make of him in death more than he was in life, for what he was in life was, well, . . . you know."

Personally I think the movie would be far more accurate if it was along the lines of pretty woman if you catch my drift.

I'm sure the CBC will keep to their usual high standards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Giant

"The CBC promoted Prairie Giant as a "real story about real people" but the series was subjected to widespread commentary on the fallacies present in the story line. Historical fallacies and omissions concerning Canada's public healthcare system and its history, Douglas's personal life and career, and the mischaracterization of the Rt. Hon. James Garfield Gardiner were identified.

On March 16, 2006, Saskatoon StarPhoenix political columnist Randy Burton, among other things, wrote "It was wonderful television but abysmal history" and "On almost every score, scriptwriter Bruce Smith got Gardiner wrong. Significant historical events were either twisted beyond recognition or worse, drawn out of thin air."[1] Burton identified specific instances of historical error and highlighted the Estevan coal miner’s strike as "probably the most egregious error in Prairie Giant... [Gardiner's] speech is broadcast live to the entire province and leaves the clear impression that Gardiner was the premier of the day... This whole scene is false... Worse, to suggest the Liberal Gardiner would publicly attack immigrants in such a manner belies his history of fighting the Ku Klux Klan... On the television show, Gardiner is almost always shown with a drink in his hand but, in real life, he was a teetotaler... to suggest that he was nothing but a thuggish strongman, who put political squabbles ahead of the welfare of his province’s interests, is nothing but character assassination."

Burton quoted Saskatchewan political scientist David Smith as saying "it was really a travesty to do what they did."

On March 17, 2006, Regina Leader-Post political columnist Murray Mandryk stated “But the third critical aspect for a project like this has to be some level of historical accuracy and it is in the script itself where the movie fails. The most egregious example of this was clearly the Estevan Riot, where any sense of historical accuracy began and ended with the death of the miners. Simply put, the bodies were not left in the street to rot for all to see. Gardiner was not the premier of the day and he didn’t give a province-wide radio address attacking the strikers as communists and undesitrable immigrants.” Mandryk states that former NDP Premier Allan Blakeney described the movie as “seriously flawed” and quotes Blakeney as saying “But he was not Saint Tommy and nor was Jimmy Gardiner the epitome of evil”.[2]"

CBC is NOT paying Olivia Chow.
You and I are.

Are we going to see in the movie the cause of his death?
Seems to be some CONFUSION.
Will the people who "serviced him" once or repeatly be in the movie?

I suppose the CBC drama showed Douglas as the first premier to bring in government health insurance instead of the United Farmers of Alberta, Richard Reid.

Her moniker of Olivia Chowcesceu is well-earned.

You folks are all so hurtful and hateful about Saint Jack. He just went to the rub & tug to sign up the employees with the Service Employees International Union. Naturally, he had to verify that they were indeed providing service. That union is a stickler for propriety.

NO one except from the Toronto area, or Quebec gave a fairies fart about this guy.
They are trying to make a cow Paddie into a paper saint.
If he would have lived the massage parlor games he played would have hounded his like a ghost with BO.

Olivia Ono? Yoko Chow?

Just pray nothing serious happens to Elizabeth May or the CBC will have a 2 hour presentation of the pain her mourners feel. Example here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygY57FdRcr0

As the first elected Green Party MP in Canada her statue (slighty smaller than Jack's, but wider) would also have to grace some sacred place where filming could begin to present another epic about a champion to save Gaia from evil fossil fuel and a decent standard of living. Also Suzuki and McGuinty waiting in the wings for their turn. CBC budget must be increased NOW, because we all know these films are the CBC's calling and will have to be made. How else can they educate the public on the true history of this great nation and the evil capitalists continued efforts to destroy it. If anything happens to Harper they will splice 15 minutes of You Tube footage and then go out to celebrate, as they are poorly equipped to handle people that watch Fox or Sun news and would rather watch paint dry than Little Mosque on the Prairie. The abnormal majority that just won't conform to the new age thinking no matter how they interpret the news or how much social engineering is presented as accepted fact. The ones that yell back at the TV......You don't speak for me!! (Stolen from Kate) So to sum up I hope Suzuki, May, McGuinty and every other left wing progressive outlive the CBC so we won't have to go through this nonsense too often. I'm sure the Layton story will last me a lifetime and curiosity will force me to watch it. I won't need any Kleenex though.

Olivia Cow is milking the public teet for all it's worth!!!!

Sgt. Lejaune, 6:11 p.m. has it right, but doesn't go far enough.

Not only should the CEO resign, the entire board should resign immediately, along with the all of the senior managers, and CBC government funding should be immediately suspended. This junk is not even remotely acceptable.

As for the rogue, Olivia Chow, Leo Amery's famous words to Neville Chamberlain apply equally:

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

If a sixteen dollar glass of orange juice warrants resignation, this hagio-kleptocracy certainly does. By comparison, Ms. Chow's indiscretion is way over the top.

I'm sick of it, myself. The CBC should be treated the same as Sun or Fox -- if you want to watch it, you pay for it. Which, by the way, means insolvency, since we all know how much the left-wing lovers of the CBC will be willing to pay out of their own pockets to support it.

Why not just tell us what exactly killed Jack. A year has passed - were over the shock.

Showing tonight on local CBC for the nth time is
An Inconvenient truth, listed as a documentary.
I kid you not, a satirist just could not improve on this stuff.

abtrapper "Why not just tell us what exactly killed Jack."

Because whatever it was he caught with his dick. It would screw up the story of it being a one-time event when the cops caught him in the whorehouse .. er er massage clinic.

Re Kleenex:

Is it the facial wipes division or the butt wipes??

We can whine and complain ad nauseum about the bloated, incestuous CBC!
Fact is, we have a Minister in charge(?? or should be -big joke), a pseudo conservative (anything but!) who could easily put the hammer down. He won't!

Come on Harper! There's some serious housecleaning in order!- First in your Cabinet, then some of the fat-ass orgs you oversee.
Now's the time- fresh after a renewed mandate. Lord hates a coward!

Sudden Light Bulb: You don't suppose the fat-ass James Moore could be a long lost brother of Michael Moore do you?
Naw, couldn't be! I don't think I've ever seen James in a tattered T-shirt, sloppy jeans, butt-ugly baseball cap, 6 day scraggly beard...
But then again, seems pres Obumhole has a sibling he wishes he hadn't.
Hmmmm...

What is next, a red marble mausoleum?

This will probably be the first political movie in Canada that employs "fluffers".

'Headed over to Toronto Island yesterday, where I was reminded of this very fitting tribute to Le Jack: Jack Layton Fairy … uh, Ferry Terminal.

It does look like the fairy/ferry was terminal.

"Chow says the only people who ask her about the cause of her husband's death are reporters".

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/one-year-on-canadians-still-in-the-dark-about-what-killed-jack-layton-166950426.html

I am sorry but there is no way in God's green earth that it is only reporters that are asking about her husband's death as she contends in her interview as reported in the Canadian Press article. That statement has not a modicum of truth even by a politician's standards or Jack Layton's for that matter.
However to give myself and the many others ( who may number in the many thousands) piece of mind that they are not alone and want to know the cause of Jack Layton's death particularly since the NDP after their elevation to official party status told us that after the next election Jack Layton would be Prime Minister of Canada ( possibly Jack Layton made that statement himself)- I a non -media type ask the question. Did Jack Layton and the NDP level with the Canadian people during the last election about the state of his health and was he suffering from an incurable and terminal disease which the Canadian voters were entitled to know and Layton and the NDP had an obligation to inform them of same.

Hey, Peter, get with the program. What other parties and politicians would be expected to do in a moral and ethical universe, the NDP and its politicians are exempt from.

Why?

'Don't know, except they're special -- according to them.

The reason the cause of The Mad Hatters death has not been released is it would be proof that Jack and the NDP knew he was dieing. By that knowledge they were lying to the Canadian voters as he would die with in a few months of being e;elected if he won the election