党今天上午发表声明，仅仅几周后，一个憔悴的雷顿举行了新闻发布会，宣布他的战斗的癌症的第二回合。
党说雷顿死亡上午4:45和平东部时间今天在他多伦多的家，周围的家人和亲人。
葬礼的细节尚未公布。
一些政治摩西一样，林顿带领他的人民的荒野，只有自己的乐土的视线之内死亡。
在他2006年出版的序言，“心声大声，”雷顿写一段话，竟然是诡异的先见之明：
“通常情况下，生活中的高点和低点都有着千丝万缕的联系，这无疑发生在我身上，偶尔的起伏几乎同步。”
作为新民主党领导人8年，他参加了他的党令人心醉的高度，却落到自己在61岁的悲惨疾病。
最终想出了一个简短的公告。
从他的妻子，邹至蕙和儿童，莎拉发表声明说：“我们对此深感遗憾地通知您，光荣，加拿大新民主党领袖林顿（Jack Layton），逝世于今日上午04:45，周一8月22日，”迈克尔。
“他去世和平在家庭包围他的家和亲人。”
葬礼的细节尚未公布。
雷顿重建他的党，其内部的争吵静音，联合国及其撒娇的派别和脱离旧式的教条提出面对中产阶级选民更得人心。
他出演了在他的党的历史上最成功的选举，并赢得了反对党领袖的称号，这已躲过他更传奇的前辈。
雷顿步履蹒跚跨越的hustings去年春天，手杖靠在手术修复破碎的髋关节的疼痛。他摆脱了前列腺癌的治疗效果。他顽强的勒庞杰克的竞选活动，他赢得了大部分在魁北克，一个珍惜，但虚幻的目标，几十年来的新民主党的议席。
他摆魁看到了长期占主导地位的自由党，减少受虐的废船。
雷顿是一个新的加拿大政治对齐对抗跨越垂死的自由中间右左就绪。
他的嘴唇，但胜利杯是虚线从另一个更残酷的癌症，浪费了他的皮肤和骨骼的冲击 - 选举日只有16个星期后，他和杀害。
雷顿去，在一个短暂的夏季，从胜利到悲剧，少一个政治遗产背后的离开不是一个政治问题：如果？
他是一名男子在他的基因进行政治。一个伟大的祖父是一个联邦的父亲。他的祖父，魁北克省在联盟国民政府的内阁部长。他的父亲，根据马尔罗尼的保守党内阁部长。
他的信徒。他在第一个句子说清楚“说到大声：”
“政治事项。观念问题。民主的问题，因为我们都需要能够有所作为。”
雷顿，1950年7月18日出生在蒙特利尔。他在Hudson长大，阙，英美社会与著名的游艇俱乐部。这是一个小镇，但很难魁北克省小城镇的典型。
他是一个50年代波澜不惊的小康家庭的孩子在一个小康镇。他是一个六十年代的青少年和大学生，与所有与声称作为其奇异的描述字的“动荡”的十年。
雷顿了他在蒙特利尔的麦吉尔大学学士学位，在20世纪60年代末，当激进通过校园像一个僵硬的大风自爆。叛逆的时代活力，使他的政治行动。他doffed家人的保守主义和拥护社会主义。
“我在六，七十年代发生的事件形成，”他写道：“说起大声。”
“我的路径增长十月危机的动荡天了。”
他成为一个活动家，兜揽，作为一个学生在蒙特利尔的社会运动的组织者。
的时候，他赢得了他的主人于1972年在多伦多约克大学的学士学位，他的政治基因明显被激活。他曾师从吉姆Laxer，轰动当时的NDP在华夫格运动的关键人物。
雷顿教授在多伦多的瑞尔森大学。但1984年他获得了他的博士的时候，他已经基本上放弃学术理论为社会运动，然后市政政治的实际情况。
“我当时就迷上当地的政治和邻里参与，”他写道。
在1982年首次当选，他担任20年在多伦多和大城市多伦多议会，磨炼自己的本能在零售政治水平和技能。他是在一个人的论坛模具的政治家，卷起衣袖，14小时和7天的周。每手是有不可动摇的，每一个故事在那里听到，每个风车进行充电。
他的政治是那些穷人，无家可归者，疏离，被剥夺公民权。他曾担任多伦多水电，多伦多卫生和加拿大城市联合会会长理事会主席副主席。他两次跑到联邦和丢失。
雷顿高中甜心莎莉哈尔福德，这产生了两个孩子的第一次婚姻结束于1983年。
他最终会组队邹至蕙，另一个市政的权力经纪人。他们一起将成为对夫妇在多伦多政治左边去。他们骑着双人自行车沿着海滨，受理，导致集会，游行，游行竞选，赢得。
议员会按照雷顿在2006年进入下议院。在2011年的黑暗夏季，她会在他身旁。
在他的崛起，莱顿获得了作为一个性情急躁，咄咄逼人，甚至磨料图的声誉。
前往卡尔加里一个市镇联合会会议，他提出与有关城市的不屑一顾意见，其在较旧的物业，甚至其润泽的新市政厅的成本新建筑的胃口当地愤怒。是在当地媒体和艺术埃格尔顿，然后多伦多市长的一片哗然，派出雷顿的意见，他自己的道歉。
他还获得了作为一个政治特技大师的顶评论的声誉。有人开玩笑说，最危险的地方，要围绕大会堂雷顿和一个麦克风，其中一个可能获得践踏。
不管正确与否，到麦克风大声喊LOUT从左侧的任何问题的形象坚持他后，他赢得了2003年的NDP领导。
这是一个领导的较量，进站雷顿和时髦的新左派，对比尔Blaikie和传统，草原的民粹主义的右翼。Blaikie是一个美国教会部长NDP和CCF老冠军的优良传统。雷顿是一个学术和一个煽动者。Blaikie Manitoban，雷顿是从多伦多，许多加拿大人的所有邪恶的字体，特别是西方人。
雷顿赢得第一轮投票中，并进入装修模式。他开始重建和重新品牌一行。他是一个人的黑莓，他与数百名组织者，筹款，招聘人员和政策学究。他曾通过膳食和假期，推他本人和他的目标。
他淡化野生言论，尽管他提出的一片哗然，指责当时的总理保罗马丁为无家可归的人死亡的责任，在2004年竞选，因为他未能出示负担得起的住房。
尽管如此，雷顿在2004年赢得了他在议会多伦多丹福思的席位，选举，留下了马丁的自由党少数政府。新民主党提出的席位总数达到19个，来自13个。
这是一个开始。雷顿纵横交错的国家，以提高党的配置文件，并在这样做，成为面对公众的NDP。商标眉开眼笑，刷胡子，认真乐观，商标歪头他的贸易工具。地狱火修辞冷却。这是合理的杰克，杰克乐观，杰克厨房的桌子，而不是街角。
这种做法似乎罢工定期民俗和弦。
在2006年，雷顿的竞选产生了29个席位，但提高了表决，以259万。势头建设。
雷顿在2008年竞选不作为第三方的领导人，但作为一个总理在等待。票总数略有下滑，但他的竞选赢得37个议席，短短半年其然后根据埃德布罗德高。
到2011年，雷顿是一个突破。尽管前列腺癌的诊断神秘的髋部骨折，尽管在2010年初，他是无处不在。在魁北克省，他的工薪阶层的法国和他的呼吁代表普通家庭的行动袭击增长厌倦欧盟持怀疑态度的自由党的选民的注意。
5月2日，约450万人投给新民主党的选票，103个座位 - 来自魁北克的59 - 党和雷顿的反对党领袖。
仅仅过了两个月后，面色苍白，面容憔悴，他所谓的新闻发布会上说，他是从另一个，未指定的癌症痛苦，他将暂时辞去党的领导。Nycole Turmel，新秀MP和资深的工党领袖，在临时接管。
申命记34说，神了摩西高的地方，并表明他在距离的乐土。
“我已经使你与你的眼睛看到它，但你不应该超过上去。摩西死在摩押地的耶和华的仆人，耶和华的话。”
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Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton dies after second cancer battle
By The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 57 minutes agotweet72EmailPrintRelated ContentNDP Leader Jack Layton has died after a battle with cancer. Layton blows a kiss to …
OTTAWA - Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton has died.
The party issued a statement this morning, just weeks after a gaunt Layton held a news conference to announce he was fighting a second bout of cancer.
The party says Layton died peacefully at 4:45 a.m. ET today at his Toronto home, surrounded by family and loved ones.
Funeral details have not yet been announced.
Like some political Moses, Jack Layton led his people out of the wilderness, only to die within sight of his own Promised Land.
In the preface to his 2006 book, "Speaking Out Louder," Layton wrote a passage that turned out to be eerily prescient:
"Oftentimes, life's highs and lows are inextricably linked. That has certainly happened to me and, occasionally, the ups and downs were virtually simultaneous."
In eight years as leader of the NDP he took his party to heady heights, but fell himself to a tragic disease at the age of 61.
The end came with a terse announcement.
"We deeply regret to inform you that the honourable Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, passed away at 4:45 am today, Monday August 22," said the statement from his wife, Olivia Chow, and children, Sarah and Michael.
"He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family and loved ones."
Funeral details have not yet been announced.
Layton rebuilt his party, muted its internal squabbles, united its fractious factions and weaned it from old-style dogma to present a face more palatable to middle-class voters.
He starred in the most successful election in the history of his party and won the title of Opposition Leader, which had eluded his more storied predecessors.
Layton hobbled across the hustings last spring, leaning on a cane against the pain of a surgically repaired broken hip. He shrugged off the effects of treatment for prostate cancer. His dogged campaigning as Le Bon Jack won him a majority of the seats in Quebec, a cherished but illusory goal for New Democrats for decades.
He slew the Bloc Quebecois and saw the long-dominant Liberal party reduced to a battered hulk.
Layton was ready for a new Canadian political alignment that would pit left against right across the moribund Liberal middle.
But the victory cup was dashed from his lips by the onslaught of another, more brutal cancer that wasted him to skin and bones — and killed him just 16 weeks after election day.
Layton went, in one short summer, from triumph to tragedy and left behind less a political legacy than a political question: What if?
He was a man who carried politics in his genes. A great-grandfather was a Father of Confederation. His grandfather, a Quebec provincial cabinet minister in a Union Nationale government. His father, a Tory cabinet minister under Brian Mulroney.
He was a believer. He made that clear in the first sentences of "Speaking Out Louder:"
"Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference."
Layton was born in Montreal on July 18, 1950. He grew up in Hudson, Que., an Anglo community complete with a celebrated yacht club. It was a small town, but hardly typical of small-town Quebec.
He was a child of the placid Fifties in a well-off family in a well-to-do town. He was a teen and university student of the Sixties, with all that went with a decade that has claimed the word "turbulent" as its singular descriptive.
Layton took his BA at Montreal's McGill University in the late 1960s, when radicalism blew through campuses like a stiff gale. The rebellious vigour of the times led him to political activism. He doffed the conservativism of his family and embraced socialism.
"Events in the Sixties and Seventies were formative for me," he wrote in "Speaking Out Louder."
"My path grew out of the tumultuous days of the October Crisis."
He became an activist, canvasser and organizer for a community movement in Montreal as a student.
By the time he earned his master's degree at Toronto's York University in 1972, his political genes had clearly activated. He had studied under Jim Laxer, a key figure in the Waffle movement that rocked the NDP at the time.
Layton taught at Ryerson University in Toronto. But by the time he received his PhD in 1984, he had already largely abandoned academic theory for community activism and then the practicalities of municipal politics.
"I was hooked on local politics and neighbourhood engagement," he wrote.
First elected in 1982, he served on Toronto and Metropolitan Toronto councils for 20 years, honing his instincts and skills at the level of retail politics. He was a politician in the mould of a people's tribune, with rolled-up sleeves, 14-hour days and seven-day weeks. Every hand was there to be shaken, every story was there to be heard, every windmill was there to be charged.
His politics were those of the poor, the homeless, the alienated, the disenfranchised. He served as vice-chair of Toronto Hydro, chair of the Toronto Board of Health and president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He twice ran federally and lost.
Layton's first marriage to high-school sweetheart Sally Halford, which had produced two children, ended in 1983.
He would eventually team up with Olivia Chow, another municipal power-broker. Together they would become the go-to couple of the left in Toronto politics. They rode a tandem bicycle along the waterfront, entertained, led rallies, marched in parades, ran for office and won.
Chow would follow Layton into the House of Commons in 2006. And she would be beside him in the dark summer of 2011.
In his rise, Layton gained a reputation as a brash, aggressive, even abrasive figure.
On a trip to Calgary for a meeting of the federation of municipalities, he raised local hackles with dismissive comments about the city, its appetite for new buildings at the cost of older properties and even its ritzy new city hall. There was an outcry in the local media and Art Eggleton, then mayor of Toronto, dispatched his own apology for Layton's comments.
He also gained a reputation as a master of the political stunt and the over-the-top comment. Some joked that the most dangerous place to be around city hall was between Layton and a microphone, where one might get trampled.
Rightly or wrongly, the image of a loud lout shouting into the mike from the left side of any issue clung to him after he won the NDP leadership in 2003.
It was a leadership contest that pitted Layton and the trendy new left against Bill Blaikie and the traditional, Prairie populist wing. Blaikie was a United Church minister in the best traditions of NDP and CCF champions of old. Layton was an academic and a firebrand. Blaikie was a Manitoban, Layton was from Toronto, font of all evil for many Canadians, especially westerners.
Layton won on the first ballot and went into renovation mode. He began to rebuild and re-brand his party. He was a people person whose BlackBerry kept him linked to hundreds of organizers, fund-raisers, recruiters and policy wonks. He worked through meals and vacations, pushing himself and his goals.
He toned down the wild rhetoric, although he raised an uproar in the 2004 election campaign by accusing then-prime minister Paul Martin of responsibility for the deaths of homeless people because he failed to produce affordable housing.
Despite that, Layton won his Toronto-Danforth seat in Parliament in 2004, an election that left Martin's Liberals with a minority government. The NDP raised its seat total to 19 from 13.
It was a start. Layton criss-crossed the country to raise the party profile and in doing so, became the public face of the NDP. The trademark grin, the brush moustache, the earnest optimism, the trademark head tilt were the tools of his trade. The hellfire rhetoric cooled. This was reasonable Jack, optimistic Jack, the Jack of the kitchen table, not the street corner.
The approach seemed to strike a chord with regular folk.
In 2006, Layton's campaign produced 29 seats, but boosted its vote to 2.59 million. Momentum was building.
In 2008, Layton campaigned not as a third-party leader, but as a prime minister-in-waiting. The vote total slipped slightly, but his campaign won 37 seats, just six short of its then all-time high under Ed Broadbent.
By 2011, Layton was ready for a breakthrough. Despite the prostate cancer diagnosed in early 2010, despite the mysterious hip fracture, he was everywhere. In Quebec, his working-class French and his call to action on behalf of the ordinary family struck a note with voters grown weary of the Bloc and leery of the Liberals.
On May 2, about 4.5 million people cast ballots for the NDP, giving the party 103 seats — 59 from Quebec — and making Layton leader of the Official Opposition.
Just over two months later, looking pale and gaunt, he called a news conference to say he was suffering from another, unspecified cancer and he would temporarily step down as party leader. Nycole Turmel, rookie MP and veteran labour leader, took over in the interim.
Deuteronomy 34 says God took Moses up to a high place and showed him the Promised Land in the distance.
"I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord."
