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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Despite what it is, I think this is quite an opportunity for his son, Mike Layton who is already following in his father's footsteps as a Toronto City Councilor to maybe step up to the Federal NDPs based on his father's name and give that party some sense of continuity with Jack Layton.
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I thought this too. I suspect he'll run in the by-election and kick around as a backbencher...maybe take on a critic's portfolio in a couple of years. And then in another 8 years or so when the NDP hold their next leadership convention, he'll take his shot then.
I know nothing about him, really, but that seems to be how things happen in such political families (see Trudeau, e.g.)