Jack Layton Tribute: Until the Job is Done

John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC, PhD (July 18, 1950 -- August 22, 2011) was a Canadian social democratic politician and the Leader of the Official Opposition. He was the leader of the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and previously sat on Toronto City Council, serving at times during that period as acting mayor and deputy mayor of Toronto. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Toronto—Danforth from 2004 until his death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_layton

I am in no way affiliated with the New Democratic Party of Canada. I created this video of my own accord to pay respect to a great man and visionary politician in Jack Layton.

The footage used is from two separate rallies during the 2011 Federal Election and Layton's speech on Election Night celebrating the NDP's new role as Official Opposition. The music used is "Claire-A Culpa" by Michael Giacchino from the Lost soundtrack.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Jack
• Layton
• Dies
• Cancer
• New
• Democratic
• Party
• of
• Canada
• NDP
• Liberals
• Conservatives
• toronto
• never
• end
• press
• conference
• johnny
• again
• pirates
• election
• health
• vancouver
• montreal
• ontario
• congress
• you
• reform
• government
• caribbean
• conservative
• debate
• democrats
• campaign
• elections
• speech
• budget

[ScientificExploits]

Rofl! Canadians think they matter...

[callumCGLP]

@ScientificExploits Silly nationalists think that where they happened to be born matters.

[andrewclunn]

Well I was here for the science, but now that I know this channel will  also be about pushing that BS known as progressive politics, I'm unsubscribing.

[callumCGLP]

@andrewclunn I fail to see how honouring a dead politician qualifies as "pushing...progressive politics". Especially considering I worked very hard to ensure this video was entirely non-partisan (do you see his party's logo anywhere?). He was a great man, regardless of his politics. I would give the same treatment to a right-wing politician who met a similar fate.

[macmac1249]

If only there were people like him running for office in America.

[Urbz1623]

@ScientificExploits silly american

[alesha14]

@TheDudar He really was. What a great guy.

[893160007]

@oxfile

In democratic societies people decide to have taxes, and if you don't like it than move to a country with less, but enjoy not having the money to afford health care, and having no cops to protect society from crime. Gun control is not violent, it discourages violence by making it harder for criminals to get weapons, and giving police information on where weapons are

[oxfile]

@893160007 Government per se is violence. A government would do lots of hearty and lovely stuff but first it needs to get the money to do so, and that is accomplished through taxes. Taxes ain't voluntary, it's robbery. You can choose not to buy an Iphone but you can't choose not to pay taxes. If you do the government or the state will use violence against you. And gun control is a violent thing, restricting your freedom to protect yourself and making you dependent on the state for protection.

[893160007]

@oxfile

How can you say Social Democracy is built on violence for something every government would do (although civilized countries would resort to peaceful means first, and try to avoid violence in the arrest). Also how is Ron Paul so different and "awesome", I like how he is more anti war than most of their politicians, but he doesn't want gun control, and wants tougher borders, how is that non-violent.

[oxfile]

@893160007 Yes, and that is violence.

[893160007]

@oxfile

I did, thats called government. Every society will do the same if you don't pay taxes.

[oxfile]

@893160007 Look at the video I referred to in my last post.

[893160007]

@oxfile

How is it built on violence

[oxfile]

@macmac1249 Dude, you have an even more awesome guy in America and his name is Ron Paul. The problem with Social democrats, at least here in Sweden, is that they sound very caring and hearty but their politics is on a very unstable moral ground. The whole Social Democratic system is built on coercion and violence and when you start to think about it becomes very upsetting. /watch?v=PGMQZEIXBMs&