{"id":33006,"date":"2025-08-22T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=33006"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:18:29","slug":"mr-jack-layton-remembering-him-with-his-inspiring-message-on-love-hope-and-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/mr-jack-layton-remembering-him-with-his-inspiring-message-on-love-hope-and-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Jack Layton: Remembering him with his inspiring message on love, hope, and optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FinalJackLayton-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33007\" style=\"width:380px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FinalJackLayton-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FinalJackLayton-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FinalJackLayton-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FinalJackLayton.jpg 1146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">May your memory be eternal, Mr. Jack Layton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For readers who may not be familiar with Canadian political figures, Mr. Jack Layton is described in the The Canadian Encyclopedia as follows: &#8220;<em>John Gilbert &#8220;Jack&#8221; Layton, educator, municipal and federal politician, New Democratic Party leader (born at Montr\u00e9al, 18 Jul 1950; died at Toronto 22 Aug 2011). Jack Layton, leader of the federal New Democratic Party\u00a0from 2003-2011, headed the first NDP party to sit as Canada&#8217;s Official Opposition in the House of Commons<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bdh7htsr\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bdh7htsr<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a last, and most beautiful, letter to Canadians, the late yet unforgettable Mr. Jack Layton wrote: &#8220;<em>My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we&#8217;ll change the world&#8221;<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4eb9ejb7\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4eb9ejb7<\/a>).  Is there anything more uplifting and inspiring than those words, especially coming from a man of integrity and humanity in public service?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Layton strongly believed that &#8220;<em>Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world<\/em>&#8220;. We may or may not fully agree with his politics or vision for Canada. However, we cannot not have the utmost respect for him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Mr. Layton for your beliefs and principles. Canada, with the entire world, needs principled leaders like you. We call them statespersons and they can\/do exist within any political party. Right and left. Centre. Maybe independent. All the latter become secondary when what matters the most is put first, namely the best interests of one&#8217;s beloved country.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mundwerk - a cappella - Fr\u00e8re Jacques\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pa2_oWshsRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Jack Layton: Party For Sale or Rent\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sl0Mk1idNXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For readers who may not be familiar with Canadian political figures, Mr. Jack Layton is described in the The Canadian Encyclopedia as follows: &#8220;John Gilbert &#8220;Jack&#8221; Layton, educator, municipal and federal politician, New Democratic Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33011,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33006\/revisions\/33011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}