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  NDP | Jack Layton, leader
Through two decades of public service, and as Leader of Canada's NDP since 2003, Jack Layton is delivering the kinds of results that strengthen people and communities.
Layton’s leadership was endorsed by 92% of delegates at the Party’s September 2006 Convention – a stronger approval than Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien received as sitting Prime Ministers and better than Stephen Harper at the past Conservative convention.
Jack Layton honed his trademark pragmatism as a stand-out municipal leader.
www.ndp.ca /jacklayton   (418 words)

  
  Jack Layton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Layton was also hurt by the growing unpopularity of the provincial NDP government of Bob Rae, and by his earlier opposition to Toronto's Olympic bid.
Layton was elected leader of the NDP at the party's leadership convention in Toronto, on January 25, 2003.
Layton did not seek election to the House of Commons by running in a by-election, as is the tradition among new party leaders without a seat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Layton   (3196 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Party Leader Biography - Jack Layton
Jack Layton was born in Montreal in 1950, and grew up in the small town of Hudson, Quebec.
Layton made the leap from municipal to federal politics in 1993 when he ran, and lost, as a New Democratic candidate for the House of Commons in the Toronto riding of Rosedale.
Layton arrived on the national scene at a time when many, both within and outside the party, were seriously questioning the future of left politics in Canada.
www.mapleleafweb.com /election/bio/layton.html   (1388 words)

  
 Jack Layton
Jack Layton (born 1950) is a former Toronto, Ontario city councillor and the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party.
Layton was born in Hudson, Quebec[?] (near Montreal) and studied at McGill and York Universities; he holds a Ph.D. in political science from York.
Layton won on the first ballot, with 53.5% of the vote.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jack_layton.html   (170 words)

  
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Québec : Liza Frulla traite Jack Layton d'«amateur»
Jack Layton, né à Hudson, à l'ouest de Montréal, s'est montré insulté par ces commentaires.
Jack Layton a indiqué qu'il favorisait un respect de la juridiction et de l'autonomie du Québec, de façon générale.
www.radio-canada.ca /nouvelles/electionsFed2006/2005/12/06/021-Frulla-Layton.shtml   (469 words)

  
 CIA PILOT RONALD (JACK) LAYTON, Member Roadrunners Internationale
Jack was born and raised in the White Mountains region of Arizona.
Jack returned to the U.S. and on June 26, 1968 was awarded the CIA "Intelligence Star for Valor" for his service during the Black Shield project.
Jack spent six months flying the NASA planes, and it was during this time that he experienced his third emergency bailout.
roadrunnersinternationale.com /layton.html   (2099 words)

  
 Iron Warrior - Jack Layton Visits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Jack, who asked to be referred to by his first name, also had time to answer a few questions after his speech.
Jack claimed that the youth often have the best ideas about the future and are the ones that have to live with the decisions made by politicians today.
Jack emphasized the NDP position that “Education is not a market economy; it’s a right.” He pointed to countries like Sweden where the cost of educating and housing students is taken on by society and tuition is quite literally a foreign concept.
iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca /?module=displaystory&story_id=1292&format=html&edition_id=23   (762 words)

  
 Canadian federal election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Layton avoided stating his party's goal was to win the election outright, instead calling for enough New Democrats to be elected to hold the balance of power in a Liberal or Conservative minority government.
Over the course of the last week of the campaign, Jack Layton called on Liberal voters disgusted with the corruption to "lend" their votes to the NDP to elect more NDP members to the House and hold the Conservatives to a minority.
The motion was voted upon and passed in the evening of November 28, with all present MPs from the NDP, Bloc Québécois, and Conservatives and 3 Independents (Bev Desjarlais, David Kilgour and Pat O'Brien), voting with a combined strength of 171 votes for the motion and 132 Liberals and one Independent (Carolyn Parrish) voting against.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2006   (3511 words)

  
 Jack Layton - dKosopedia
Jack Layton is the Member of the Canadian House of Commons who has led the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2003.
Layton was born in Montreal, is bi-lingual, received a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University and is the author of two recent books.
Speaking to the Empire Club, Layton explained the decision as a response to the Martin government's refusal to end government subsidies to private physicians, which is allowing the emergence of a two-tier system that is eroding public medicare.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Jack_Layton   (417 words)

  
 Doing It Wrong: Jack Layton Redux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Layton's syntax was almost as tortured as his hopes were high.
If Jack Layton calls for our troops to get out of Afghanistan, I call for the the NDP to get out of Parliament, since their leader seems intent on doing more harm than good.
Jack Layton is free to go to Afghanistan and talk all he wants.
doing-it-wrong.blogspot.com /2006/09/jack-layton-redux.html   (711 words)

  
 The Canadian National Newspaper: Editorial newspaper
Layton, that is responsible for the 2006 Federal Election that led to Harper's Conservative minority government.
The substantive apparent reason that Jack Layton triggered off the 2006 Federal election was that he, and the NDP leadership clique that he confers with, thought that the NDP would gain a few seats by triggering of the last Federal Election.
What Jack Layton's NDP does, is sell an image of the NDP, though salesperson-like pitches that include, the need to redress "child poverty", homelessness, and helping "the average worker", that they don't apparently really give a damn about.
www.agoracosmopolitan.com /Jack_Layton_betrays_Tommy_Douglas.html   (1156 words)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Leaders and Parties
NDP Leader Jack Layton proved effective at garnering media attention for his party, despite not having a seat in the House.
Layton was president of his students' council in 1967 and announced in his yearbook that he intended to be prime minister some day.
Layton was briefly a young Liberal while he studied at McGill University, but turned to the NDP in 1971, impressed by Tommy Douglas's opposition to the War Measures Act.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_layton.html   (970 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Layton calls Liberal health plan 'disappointing'
NDP leader Jack Layton says the health-care proposal put forth by the minority Liberals is "disappointing", but said his party will study it over the weekend.
Layton has threatened to take away the support of his 18 seats in the House of Commons in a confidence vote that could come as early as Nov. 15.
Layton said the package contained some "promising language", such as acknowledging that the government really can't calculate the growth of private health care.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051104/layton_liberals_deal_051104/20051104?hub=TopStories   (426 words)

  
 Blue Blogging Soapbox: Jack Layton misleads Canadians...
Layton and the NDP are engaging in hair splitting of such a minute level that an electron microscope would have a hard time distinguishing the difference.
Jane Taber's subsequent questioning of Jack Layton focuses on the detainee issue alone and leaves standing the supposed fact that the mission suddenly changed in December and that this is the first that Parliament learned about it.
Layton's statement leaves Canadians with the impression that the mission suddenly changed in December in a way that was never planned and this change was so radical that an immediate debate was required.
soapbox22.blogspot.com /2006/03/jack-layton-misleads-canadians.html   (2643 words)

  
 Layton-Harper, 1st Writethru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
OTTAWA (CP) - NDP Leader Jack Layton has spelled out his priorities for the coming session of Parliament, paving the way for a clash of child-care agendas that could topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper's fledgling minority government.
Even so, Layton adopted a conciliatory tone Thursday after a meeting with Harper to outline what New Democrats want to see in the April 4 throne speech: promises to increase day-care spaces, protect the public health-care system, reduce pollution and reform the electoral system.
Layton said his party, unlike the Liberals, is determined to make Parliament work and will not oppose the government for the sake of opposing.
www.recorder.ca /cp/National/060323/n032397A.html   (375 words)

  
 jack layton
As I enter his headquarters on Grange Avenue, Jack Layton's campaign manager is on bended knee mopping the floors in a never-ending effort to remove slush dragged in by myself and others.
This year Jack Layton wants to play a larger role in Canadian politics by bringing this philosophy to the House of Commons, but with no seat he could be in for a bumpy ride.
Jack's job as he sees it "Is to get our message out there a heck of a lot more effectively and creatively, using the wide range of media that is available.
www.kitchenink.com /ladytoronto/jacklayton.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Blue Blogging Soapbox: Jack Layton and the NDP exposed
As a follow-up to yesterday's post - Jack Layton misleads Canadians, I decided a little more digging was in order.
Below is the statement on Afghanistan issued by Jack Layton during the last federal election.
Layton did not attend) and over 7 months of media reports does, Jack Layton expect us to believe the NDP still wasn't sure if Canadians were deploying additional troops to Kandahar?
soapbox22.blogspot.com /2006/03/jack-layton-and-ndp-exposed.html   (1411 words)

  
 rabble columns
For nearly 15 years, Jack Layton's political opponents have being trying to smear him on the basis that he and his family once lived in a housing co-op.
Now that Layton is increasing his visibility and popularity on the national stage and becoming a real threat to the political status quo, his opponents are again working overtime in trying to smear him.
Jack Layton paid full market rent when he lived in the co-op, and received no government subsidy.
www.rabble.ca /columnists_full.shtml?x=32805   (815 words)

  
 Jack Layton
Jack got the car from Vern in 1959 and put a Chevy V8 in it and contacted Norm Rust from New Hudson, MI to drive the car.
Jack and his son were active in racing modified snowmobiles and competed successfully against the factory teams.
Jack died in 2000 and is survived by his wife Vaughna.
www.mmshof.org /inductees/Layton_Jack.html   (568 words)

  
 Flash Gordon and Jack Layton
Jack Layton introduced Bill Siksay, long time assistant to Sven, as his replacement and added he would be working on the issue of same sex marriage with North Shore Candidate John Nelson whom Jack called to join them on the platform from the back row.
Jack Layton urged the room of supporters to send the message "Enough is enough!" and the room erupted into applause and standing ovation.
Jacks handshake was strong and firm and his hand was very warm both Crazy Fish and Flash agreed.
www.cannabisculture.com /articles/3528.html   (1565 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Layton not interested in alliance with Liberals
In an interview with a Montreal newspaper, Layton said the Liberals are far from a left-wing party and that the sponsorship scandal has tarnished the party's image for a long time to come, especially in Quebec.
Layton added that the NDP risks sabotaging the gains the party has made in Quebec and the rest of Canada if it aligns itself with the Liberals.
As examples, Layton pointed to Pierre Trudeau's controversial decision to invoke the War Measures Act during the October Crisis of 1970 and large corporate tax cuts under the governments of Paul Martin and Jean Chretien.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060415/layton_libs_060415/20060415?hub=Canada   (387 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Homelessness: Books: Jack Layton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Jack Layton, one of this country's leading experts and outspoken activists on housing issues, addresses the crisis from its roots, in order not only to understand the problem, but to find workable solutions.
Former Toronto City Councillor Jack Layton is well known for his work on homeless and housing issues.
Jack Layton is currently the leader of the Federal New Democratic Party.
www.amazon.ca /Homelessness-Jack-Layton/dp/0140288880   (431 words)

  
 RootleWeb: Jack Layton's Campaign Speech
In a speech delivered to the Empire Club this afternoon, NDP LEader Jack Layton has called the Liberal Party's response to health care "unacceptable." The complete transcript can be found here.
Layton puts the onus on the Liberals by declaring his own actions as being "unfortunate" and "reluctant." To be frank, I find his presentation manipulative, servile and spineless.
Layton is a cretin, but I don't think his party will do better next time around.
rootleweb.blogspot.com /2005/11/jack-laytons-campaign-speech.html   (381 words)

  
 Canadian Politics: Jack Layton says ....
TORONTO (CP) - As Canadian troops prepare to do battle with insurgents in the mountains of southern Afghanistan, NDP Leader Jack Layton says the public is not in favour of going on the offensive in that war-torn country.
Layton has denied he's late in coming to the discussion, saying his party has been calling since last spring for a debate on the switch from peacekeeping in the Kabul area to all-out war in Kandahar.
Layton is not coming out against this mission because it will be seen as disrespectful...however it does not take much imaginatinon to know what he really thinks.
www.canadiancontent.net /forums/about10702.html   (1969 words)

  
 The Dominion: Doing Jack for Haiti
Solidarity activists made a concerted effort, in particular, to encourage Jack Layton to use the election spotlight to call for the release of Father Jean-Juste, whom Amnesty International has declared a ‘prisoner of conscience’.
Until the last week of the campaign, when Layton made an important call for a debate in the House of Commons about Canada’s new, more aggressive role in Afghanistan, the only thing resembling ‘foreign policy’ on the NDP website was a letter of condolence to the Israeli people regarding Ariel Sharon’s failing health.
Jack Layton often said he would hold Paul Martin’s ‘feet to the fire’ on foreign policy matters.
dominionpaper.ca /opinion/2006/01/27/doing_jack.html   (754 words)

  
 Steve Janke: Angry in the Great White North — Jack Layton faces dissent
Based on the anti-Israel pro-Hamas platform being considered for NDP policy, Jack Layton clearly thinks Canadian troops are needed to keep their weapons aimed at Israel.
Jack Layton is going to have to walk a fine line when he decides to deliver a smackdown to a party members who has dared to disagree with Layton's take on geopolitics.
Jack is a toronto dipper...nuke free zone etc etc...god bless him he doesnt believe anyone oppesed to capitalism or globalization is really that bad...just misguided.
www.stevejanke.com /archives/195068.php   (1731 words)

  
 Jack Layton - The Huffington Post
The real question to Jack Layton and the rest of the NDP party is, what are they going to say or who are they going to blame in February 2009 when the Canadian...
Party leader Jack Layton, despite his fourth-party stature in the Commons, was a portrait of partisan cockiness in the aftermath.
NDP Party Leader, Jack Layton, right, and Thomas Mulcair, left, shakes hands at a press conference on Mount Royal in Montreal, Friday, April 20, 2007 to announce that Mulcair is joining the NDP.
www.huffingtonpost.com /topics/Jack+Layton   (1109 words)

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