Tributes to Jack Layton

A timeline of Jack Layton's political career

The leader of the federal New Democratic Party became portrayed as "Smilin' Jack and Le bon Jack in the media, or just Jack on his party's campaign advertisements. Pundits and political scientists were frequently skeptical when he talked about taking his perennially third- and fourth-place party into government and himself into the high office of prime minister.

And yet underneath the public persona was a highly intelligent political theorist, a doctor of political science and former professor at Toronto's Ryerson University, who had given careful thought to analyzing the success of what he called the conservative playbook and how he could make an end-run around it to win over the hearts and minds of Canadian voters.

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