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What do we need to know? (II)

by Aaron Wherry on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:36am - 7 Comments

Jack Layton’s aides discuss their approach to disclosure and the Canadian Press explores the history of private health in public life.

“I think the nature, sadly, of this disease is that it’s changed,” says Monk. “And that’s why he announced yesterday his temporary leave. He admitted quite publicly yesterday that he’s facing serious medical challenges.”

Layton has not, however, divulged the form of cancer he is now battling, the treatment he’s receiving or the prognosis. ”I think that Canadians respect his right to keep some things about his treatment private,” says Monk.

The NDP caucus is presently meeting on Parliament Hill. Mr. Layton is due to address the gathering by phone. Before the meeting, party president Brian Topp described a conversation with the NDP leader this morning.

I was on the phone this morning with Jack Layton. He was in great spirits, his voice was strong, he was in good humour. He was complaining that he should have done this press conference today and he asked me to say that he was very grateful for the thousands of messages that he’s received in the last two days from Canadians across the country. He’s drawing great power and spirit from them.

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  • TonyAdams

    Apparently the socialists have right to defraud public during elections when their leader is very popular, but quite sick, and they don’t want to acknowledge it publicly because it might hurt their chances electorally. 

    NDP spinners have a whole host of reasons why it was clever of Layton to not inform public about his health during election and now we have leaderless OLO because of Layton’s supposed right to privacy even tho he has one of the highest public jobs in Canada 

    And our servile msm went along with it because pervert Layton is a terrific guy with a great smile.

  • TonyAdams

    Apparently the socialists have right to defraud public during elections when their leader is very popular, but quite sick, and they don’t want to acknowledge it publicly because it might hurt their chances electorally. 

    NDP spinners have a whole host of reasons why it was clever of Layton to not inform public about his health during election and now we have leaderless OLO because of Layton’s supposed right to privacy even tho he has one of the highest public jobs in Canada 

    And our servile msm went along with it because pervert Layton is a terrific guy with a great smile.

    • Anonymous

      You are displaying the same kind of paranoid fanaticism the world has been witnessing recently in Norway; demonising socialism and suggesting a conspiracy behind every pillar.  Jack Layton has been one of the mlost open and honest politicians in Canadian history.  You have not one shred of evidence to back up your hateful and inappropriate comment.  The scary thing is that you might just be the tip of the radical fundamentalist right wing iceberg in Canada.  Canada may be more at risk from the likes of you than any Muslim terrorists. 

    • Anonymous

      You are displaying the same kind of paranoid fanaticism the world has been witnessing recently in Norway; demonising socialism and suggesting a conspiracy behind every pillar.  Jack Layton has been one of the mlost open and honest politicians in Canadian history.  You have not one shred of evidence to back up your hateful and inappropriate comment.  The scary thing is that you might just be the tip of the radical fundamentalist right wing iceberg in Canada.  Canada may be more at risk from the likes of you than any Muslim terrorists. 

      • TonyAdams

        “The scary thing is that you might just be the tip of the radical fundamentalist right wing iceberg in Canada.”

        Jonah Goldberg, National Review:

        Remember the cocky, arrogant kid in nursery school, the one who always thought that he had all the answers and that he could do whatever he wanted, and was always ignoring what the teacher had to say? Chances are this bully grew up to be a conservative ….

        Ever since Theodor Adorno came out with his scandalously flawed Authoritarian Personality in 1950, liberal and leftist social scientists have been trying to diagnose conservatism as a psychological defect or sickness. Adorno and his colleagues argued that conservatism was little more than a “pre-fascist” “personality type.” 

        According to this school, sympathy for communism was an indication of openness and healthy idealism. Opposition to communism was a symptom of your more deep-seated pathologies and fascist tendencies. According to Adorno, subjects who saw Nazism and Stalinism as similar phenomena were demonstrating their “idiocy” and “irrationality.”

      • TonyAdams

        “You are displaying the same kind of paranoid fanaticism …. demonising socialism …. tip of the radical fundamentalist right wing iceberg in Canada.  Canada may be more at risk from the likes of you than any Muslim terrorists.”

        Hahahahahahahaha.

        CBC – June 2011

        The largest increase was in hate crimes motivated by religion, which increased 55 per cent, the agency said, and seven in 10 of those involved hate crimes directed against Jews, who were the target of 283 reported hate crimes.

        Hate crimes against the Muslim faith increased to 36 incidents from 26 in 2008. Police reported 33 hate crimes against Catholics, three more than in 2008.

        Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings

  • Anonymous

    I wish all the best for Jack and his family and apologize for the derailment of this blog but I couldn’t find the appropriate blog for this because one doesn’t seem to exist and it does seem to fit the title of this entry:

    How much do we need to know?

    “Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada’s West Coast, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News.

    The documents show the Privy Council Office, which supports the Prime Minister’s Office, stopped Kristi Miller from talking about one of the most significant discoveries to come out of a federal fisheries lab in years.”
    Read more: http://www.canada.com/technology/Feds+silence+scientist+over+salmon+study/5162633/story.html#ixzz1TJteODtO

    Why do Canadians and the MSM put up with this BS?

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