On August 22, Jack Layton, leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, died at the age of 61 from cancer. As leader of his party, he had guided it from winning 19 seats in Parliament in 2004, to 29 in 2006, to 37 in 2008, and to 103 in May 2011. The 2011 election gave the New Democratic Party the second highest number of seats in Parliament, displacing the Liberal Party as the official opposition to the Conservative government. See this obituary. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Jack did a lot of work for third parties in Canada. congrats to his New Democratic Party’s recent success. R.I.P., Layton.
Will the NDP top folks now merge the leftist parties in Canada ???
Canada is one more of the EVIL minority rule gerrymander regimes — like the U.S.A. and the U.K. (the creator of the modern gerrymander ROT in the English House of Commons in the 1200s — a mere 700 plus years of gerrymander ROT).
# 3 Sorry — ALL gerrymander regimes are EVIL — regardless of who are the robot party hack gang leaders — alive or dead.
Mr. Layton did not have the chance to impose his leftwing statism on Canada.