During an
interview with
ipolitics.ca reporter Laura Stone, Anders comes out with this:
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“I actually think one of the great stories that was missed by journalists was that Mr. Mulcair, with his arm twisted behind the scenes, helped to hasten Jack Layton’s death,” he said.
“It was very clear to me watching the two of those gentlemen in the front benches, that Jack Layton was ill and that Mr. Mulcair was making it quite obvious that if Jack wasn’t well enough to fight the campaign and fight the election that he should step aside, and that because of that, Mr. Layton put his life at risk to go into the national election, and fight it, and did obviously an amazing job considering his state of health, and that he did that partly because of the arm-twisting behind the scenes by Mulcair and then subsequently died.”
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Will be curious to see what the fallout from this is, as we all know, Mr. Anders has quite the history behind him. I'll be interested to see if other Conservatives hold this view but have just not spoken about it.
The goverment tweeted a response to this as well this morning:
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To be clear, Mr. Anders’ comments regarding Jack Layton in no way represent the views of @pmharper or the Government.
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So - Thoughts on this? Is Anders right even though it was insensitive of him to speak about it? He is out to lunch and is this the kind of comment that he should finally resign over? Discuss.