On this day – August 27, 2011 – of Jack Layton’s funeral, Niagara At Large is posting the following images taken in recent days by Niagara news photographer Joanne McDonald outside Toronto City Hall where thousands came to pay tribute to Canada’s late Opposition Party leader .
Click on this image and others below to enlarge them to screen size. Photo courtesy of Joanne McDonald
In the first photo, the words; ‘Jack Layton was the reason I started to vote’ are written in chalk on a wall behind a makeshift shrine of flowers. In the same photo, one sign reads; ‘Jack – Inspiration for a Generation’.
Let’s all hope that this inspiration lives on!
Photo courtesy of Joanne McDonald
Indeed, let’s hope that if anything good comes out of Jack Layton’s passing, we will see new generations of Canadians become more interested in politics, either by becoming more actively involved in our democratic system by voting and by being more engaged in the day-to-day decisions of our governments, or by running for political office themselves. That would be one of the best ways the spirit of Jack Layton and everything he stood for could live on.
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Photo courtesy of Joanne McDonald
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