What is it with people? You can't turn on a tv without seeing yet more grieving lines of Jack Layton-ites. People who didn't even know the guy standing for hours to file by his casket. Another Princess Di mawkish freak show. I mean, the guy was obviously popular, but this is too much.
I agree with Christie Blatchford and others who think a state funeral is totally over the top. He certainly didn't rate one, if protocol means anything -- which it ovbiously doesn't. You gotta love Harper, though. He just cut everyone off at the pass by offering a state funeral before the ignoramus' in the media tore him to Queen-Elizabeth shreds. A consumate chess player, if ever there were one.
You would have thought that Jack -- one of the people, the "people's prince" -- would have shunned such pomp and circumstance in favour of a pine box and a pauper's grave. Eventually everyone starts to believe their own press.
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