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Thursday 26 May 2011
What a short honeymoon!
Having romped home with 59 of Quebec's 75 seats in the House, Jack Layton has fumbled his first attempt to reconcile the soft nationalist / sovereignist / independence leanings of many of his Quebec MPs in the NDP caucus.
For twenty four hours Layton danced with the angels on the point of the separatist needle, but then he had to come down and clarify the muddle, because the NDP could hear the faint rumblings of an uproar in that province:
LIKE IT? CLICK HERE TO READ MOREBut even as he attempted to clarify, Layton continued to insist that his position is consistent with the Supreme Court ruling."The Supreme Court decision says you need a clear majority. And our Sherbrooke Declaration put a number to what a clear majority means: 50 per cent plus one. That's been our policy for a long time, and it remains so."
Labels: framing, Jack Layton, NDP, Quebec
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