I remain a bit puzzled. 

I know good ol’ boy Jack was a ‘nice’ man. I get that. 

But what did he do? 

He betrayed the principles of authentic socialism when he voted to bomb Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi’s Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya which produced for the majority of Libyan people a socialist state containing everything Layton told us he would give us if we made him a majority prime minister – free education including higher education outside the country, free medicare, assisted housing, subsidized food and fuel costs, etc, etc … all at the expense of reduced profits for multinational oil companies. He suppressed radical elements within his own religion and he accepted his responsibility to assist other African nations to resist imperialism. Al-Gaddafi was a socialist’s wet dream.

Yet, Layton approved of Canada participating in the destruction of socialist Libya without bothering with any negotiating or wondering who was going to be left in charge when Gaddafi was gone abd what would happen to the model of socialism Gaddafi created. 

I know Layton signed an agreement the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois to oust the minority Conservative government in a confidence vote if he was allowed to sit on the front benches and appoint some of his members to the cabinet, a move most saw as an exchange of principle for power.But what else did Jack DO?