• fourish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I consider it a national tragedy that Jack Layton didn’t survive long enough to be elected as a PM. He would’ve rocked it.

    • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’ve been feeling the same way for years now. I think the course of Canadian politics massively changed for the worse from his passing. Though I never thought of it as a real inflection point until years later.