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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 wonder how many people who are opposed to Layton receiving a state funeral would've have been in favour of Preston Manning receiving one? (Of course no one will admit this now, but it does make me wonder)
I am not a huge NDP supporter, but Harper made the right call here. The rarity of any MP dying in office let alone being the leader of the opposition means that this isn't some horrible precedent or anything. Instead its a great show of respect, as it should be. I always thought that Layton and Harper got along and probably liked each other. Sure they had obvious political differences, but they seemed to have a lot in common as well.