Federal NDP leader Mulcair in Brampton to honour Jack Layton
Posted August 18, 2012 8:48 am.
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Federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair was in Brampton on Saturday for a party in honour of the late Jack Layton.
Muclair joined Layton’s widow MP Olivia Chow at MPP Jagmeet Singh’s office for “Riding in the Riding,” a cycling event followed by a poetry slam.
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Layton died of cancer on Aug. 22, 2011. He won the NDP leadership in 2003 and made historic gains in the last federal election when the party claimed official Opposition status for the first time in its 50-year history.
Layton also served on Toronto’s city council after first being elected in 1982.
On Friday, Mulcair promised that the NDP would run a party in Quebec in the next provincial election.
The NDP leader said the party was too busy to create a Quebec version in time for the current election campaign, which will send Quebecers to the polls on Sept. 4.
But Mulcair indicated the NDP is planning to build a provincial cousin before the next election.
With files from The Canadian Press
