Jack Layton - Now The Dream Will Never Die

The state in some form or another is a necessary precondition to the establishment of values.
David Harvey, The Limits To Capital, p. 19

Unexpected and untimely death is a harsh reality of public and private life. But as Jack often said, the movement and the party is always bigger than any one man. It is Jack Laytons greatest legacy to have taken the NDP as close as they have ever gotten to the mountain top. With the inspiration from the vistas and the views, of which the legacy, that the leadership Jack has so selflessly provided, there will be found the strength for the final push to the summit.

Jack Layton - press conference, Quebec City

August is supposed to be the slow time of the year. One does not expect to be shocked awake by hearing of the news of the unexpected passing of a Great Canadian. The outpouring has been immense and quite surprising. Proving that the fire is more deeply planted and burns hotter then had been expected in the souls of the many Canadians that Jack has inspired in life.

The similarity didn't bother
me at all!

Jack was one subtle bastard, he never came right out and said it out loud, but he was fully aware of the present period of neoliberal social deconstruction that we are all being subjected to. He saw it as clearly as he understood the concept of the country of Canada. He was one of the present small handful of men in contemporary federal public life, that from this humble scribes view, truly "got" Canada.

In the House there will be one empty seat, but it will be surrounded and protected with a new found vigor and the gift of an unchanging,  forever focused, searing, penetrating vision of the future that all Canadians can have and deserve to have. This, history will record, was Jack Laytons greatest gift.   

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