Jack

 If you're wondering where your Canadian flisters are today, we are pretty much collectively huddled in a corner cryinginto our beers. This morning the Leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton died from cancer. He fought the last federal campaign, just earlier this year while recovering, we thought, from prostate cancer. He was a social democrat, someone who cared for and looked outfor poor and vulnerable canadians, for families in all our diversity, he was a politician who actually believed in a better Canada, a better politics. Our country is much poorer today. 

Jack's farewell letter
www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2011/08/22/dear-friends/