It would be interesting to know how Jack Layton imagines the New Democratic Party when he’s lounging around Stornoway admiring what a lifetime on the public payroll has brought him.
The rhetoric was flying fast and free on the weekend, as the NDP leader and like-minded associates sought to nudge party members into recognizing that Canada has changed since 1961, when the party really was new. The economy has been altered fundamentally, and the workplace along with it. Canadians don’t earn money in 2011 the same way they did 50 years ago. “Hard-working Canadians” today aren’t the same people they were then.
Layton wanted to stop identifying the party as socialist in nature, recognizing that it sends voters scurrying in the opposite direction. It was a commendable idea, but ran up against the party’s Woodstock faction. If they want to keep pretending The Who is going to turn up in a field in upstate New York and belt out ‘My Generation’ one more time, no one’s going to persuade them otherwise. So Layton will be forced to bide his time before trying to nudge them forward again.
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The rhetoric was flying fast and free on the weekend, as the NDP leader and like-minded associates sought to nudge party members into recognizing that Canada has changed since 1961, when the party really was new. The economy has been altered fundamentally, and the workplace along with it. Canadians don’t earn money in 2011 the same way they did 50 years ago. “Hard-working Canadians” today aren’t the same people they were then.
Layton wanted to stop identifying the party as socialist in nature, recognizing that it sends voters scurrying in the opposite direction. It was a commendable idea, but ran up against the party’s Woodstock faction. If they want to keep pretending The Who is going to turn up in a field in upstate New York and belt out ‘My Generation’ one more time, no one’s going to persuade them otherwise. So Layton will be forced to bide his time before trying to nudge them forward again.
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Source: National Post
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