Does that mean that if Jack Layton ever became PM he’d be “the Left Honourable Jack Layton”? 
I tell you all right now, if a wondrous miracle occurs and the NDP win the next election (or any election), I will indeed be calling him that religiously. 
I know where my vote is going next election.
Harper
Out of all the three stooges to choose from he’s the one that I’m least worried about.
Once upon a time (like when I came here in 1968), Canada had men of stature as its political leaders. Pearson, then Trudeau and Stanfield then Clark. Now they have pygmies. Harper may be the best of the Conservative lot (but he has instituted policies that make it impossible for me to have a research grant, moving much closer to the US NSF giving only giant grants) and trying to end arts funding (that cost him all of Quebec in the last election). The Liberals had a choice between a proven incompetent (Bob Rae who seems like a decent sort, but fucked up totally as premier of Ontario) and a carpetbagger who returned from Harvard only to become Liberal leader. Bring on Ken Dryden! At least he can tend goal for the national team. When the next election is called, I will likely vote Green.
Someone said that the big money would support the Conservatives. It will if it sees them winning, but the big money always follows the winner. They don’t care who wins as long as the run the government.
While this is obviously an opinion call, I would suggest to you that calling JOE CLARK a man of stature, as opposed to today’s leaders, smacks of romanticizing the past.
Clark was a decent man and all but he was, in his time, widely seen as a bumbler. He was not up to the task of being Prime Minister or, for that matter, leader of his party; he was twice a living embodiment of the Peter Principle.
I don’t see what’s so wonderful about Stanfield, either.
So you’re voting in the riding of Calgary Southwest then?
Har har har.
Québec actually, land of the bloc and the province that turned on him because the amount of free paint brushes for separatist artists were cut back a little.
Fickle lot they are at times.
Or Jack Layton instead of Hon. Jack Layton, PC, MP. What with his being a member of the Privy Council and all.
(I promise I won’t be offended if you decide to just call him “Jack” or “Layton,” unless you happen to be a sitting MP on the floor of the House of Commons, in which case he would be “the hon. Member for Toronto–Danforth” or “the hon. Leader of the NDP,” but I imagine that the Hon. Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons, has a stronger opinion on the matter than I do.)
I’m still looking forward to the day we get to post "the Hon. matt_mcl, MP.
And here I was wondering if Stephen Harper was still prime minister. (Really. I’ve been sitting around feeling ashamed about how much I don’t know about the countries next door).
Well, I guess that answers that question.
I guess that’s how Canadians view culture.