http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/jack-laytons-legacy-wont-end-here/article2138288/?cmpid=nl-news1Jack Layton's LegacyWon't End Here by Sandra Martin
the Globe & Mail
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Once committed, Mr. Layton never wavered through years of heckling, demonstrations and the vicissitudes of city politics in Toronto. Nothing was handed to Mr. Layton politically. He earned his stripes march by march and won the friendship of the party hierarchy through his “energy, determination and ambition – not for himself, but to change the world,” said Ed Broadbent, who barely knew Mr. Layton when he nominated him to succeed Alexa McDonough for the leadership of the federal party in 2003.
“I did the most thorough check you can imagine because I decided not to support my good friend Bill Blaikie
, but what I found out about Jack turned out to be true in spades,” Mr. Broadbent said. These qualities included his energy, capacity to work with others (including political opponents), his civility and his ambition to get things done. “He was a doer without malice towards his opponents and I think that culminated in people’s opinion of him in the election.”
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