[dba-Tech] OT: Jack Layton

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 1 20:08:39 CDT 2011


Will you be at the state funeral on Saturday?...or the question should be
will you not. There are a number of friends who are catching flights back
east.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/24/itinerary-jack-layton-funeral
.html

Jim


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: Jack Layton

I will miss him immensely. I wrote his first campaign-manegement software
which was shared by his soon-to-be-wife Olivia Chow. Thanks in part to them,
I have begun learning both Cantonese and Mandarin. This is a very long
process, especially when you are 64 years old, but I am trying, and the
people in my building are helping me achieve this goal.

A.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Tina Norris Fields <
tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:

> Arthur,
> Thank you for sharing this.  A great man, indeed!
> T
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields at torchlake.com
> 231-322-2787
>
>
>
> On 8/27/2011 3:08 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>
>> This week, a man died of cancer in Canada. His name was Jack Layton. He
>> was
>> Leader of the Opposition in parliament, head of the New Democratic Party,
>> and a galvanizing force in Canadian politics and political life. About 30
>> years ago, when Jack was a City Councillor in Toronto, I wrote the first
>> version of his campaign-management software, later to be shared with
>> Olivia
>> Chow, who would soon become his wife. In step with his successes, we went
>> on
>> to develop several subsequent versions. Each time the software got
better,
>> and I like to think that it played some small part in his success.
>>
>> Jack is the first person in Canadian history who is not a prime minister
>> or
>> cabinet minister to be given a state funeral. It's occurring as I write
>> this. He has so many achievements that it's hard to know where to begin.
>> He
>> was the first to embrace gay rights, green city culture, he invented the
>> White Ribbon HIV-AIDS campaign. campaigned for bicycle-culture (he rode
>> his
>> bicycle to work even in the dead of winter; I remember him saying that if
>> you dress for it, you can bicycle even in Toronto winters). He was
>> tri-lingual (he was born in Quebec and so learned English and French when
>> he
>> was young, and later on learned Cantonese from his wife Olivia Chow). He
>> had
>> several remarkable and unique characteristics, notable among them his
>> open-door policy. I know this because I was frequently there working on
>> his
>> computer, adding reports etc. while people walked in and told him of
their
>> problems and complaints -- and he acted on them.
>>
>> In this week of his death, it is astonishing how many thousands of people
>> are weeping openly at his loss. Even those who don't share his political
>> views are weeping. One thing everyone of every political stripe can say
is
>> that Jack never argued ad hominem (against the man), but always stuck to
>> the
>> issues: poverty, homelessness, gay rights, green economics.
>>
>> Such was his measure that even the prime minister of Australia flew
>> halfway
>> around the world to attend Jack's funeral == not to mention thousands of
>> Torontonians and others who came to pay their respects and honour a man.
>>
>> Rest in peace, Jack. You will be missed by Canadians of every political
>> stripe.
>>
>> Arthur
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