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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
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.)
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I would like to hope that Layton's kid would have the self-respect to wait a bit and try to get through to federal politics trading on his own name rather than on a wave of grief for his father.