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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
We will have to agree to disagree.
I know that people are enamored with the Orange Crush, but up until this election, the NDP were a non entity in Canadian History.
And up until this election he was not the leader of the official opposition.
I don't mean to begrudge the dead, and I have a lot of respect for Jack and what he did. But what he did isn't really worthy of a State Funeral.
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I know some people may be enamored with the Orange Crush, but I'm certainly not one of them. TBQH, I'd have been quite disappointed in the guy I voted for (Harper) had he not given a state funeral to the Official Opposition leader, even if it was Captain Creepo Ignatieff. I think it's just respect for the leader of the party that the second most amount of Canadians voted for.
Besides, Layton has been "serving Canada" for like 30 years. It's not like he just parachuted in (like most of his new MPs). The guy, love him or hate him, always has time to answer for himself (he's been lambasted on Rutherford countless times, and still agreed to interviews to rebut), and he's pretty much always working.
So we can definitely agree to disagree. I just wanted to explain why I, a staunch anti-NDPer, am pleased that Harper offered a state funeral to Layton.