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In response to
"So, you think he wasn't as influential as he's being made out to be? -- nm"
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con_carne
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His political legacy is massive in Canada (second greatest NDP leader ever), but...
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His body of policy work is not as strong as it is written up.
His "final letter" was a carefully staged political vehicle, something that I don't begrudge him for doing, but it's being made out as a great "statesman like send off" that it really isn't. (Though I guess it's good to show that even cynics like to drop their guard time to time.)
He didn't merit a State Funeral. (I'm a stickler for wearing down traditional barriers of entry.)
And he had some serious personal foibles that I think bar him from "great man" status.
That said, I like that a nakedly ambitious political animal like him can make this his legacy.
Gives another nakedly ambitious political animal hope. ;-)
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