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John Ivison: Taking the socialist out of the NDP


John Ivison October 7, 2010 – 5:17 pm

Jack Layton used to boast about being a socialist. “I’m proud to call myself a socialist. I prefer it by far to democratic socialist,” he said in an interview seven years ago.

Yet when I posed the same question yesterday, he was less strident. “I’m not into labels, but I prefer the description ‘social democrat’. I am the leader of Canada’s social democratic party and proud of it,” he said.
He sounded like former British Labour leader, Tony Blair, who also preferred the “social democrat” tag.

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