What Jack Layton would have thought of the NDP now

The party won its second-best seat score ever last year. Still, even when it was reduced to less than a dozen MPs in 1993, it didn't seem as lost for direction as it is today.

Jack Layton, pictured two months before his August 2011 death, would have found that Justin Trudeau’s victory—as bittersweet as it may have been for the NDP—validated his conviction for a big-tent approach to politics, writes Chantal Hébert.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

August 24, 2016

MONTREAL—Five years on, what would Jack Layton make of the Canadian political landscape and the gloomy state of the party he led to unprecedented heights before his premature death? Because he always tended to see a glass half full rather than half empty I believe he would probably first note som...

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