[68skylark]

For those of us who aren't up to speed on Canadian politics, can you identify the short man in the suit?

[Ashamed Canadian]

NDP Leader and leftist anti-American scum Jack Layton.

[Clive]

"For those of us who aren't up to speed on Canadian politics, can you identify the short man in the suit?"

He is Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party, the most leftist of the parties having party standing in the Federal House of Commons.

He is pushing for parliament to review the current deployment and ROE, which deployment and and more robust ROE had been made under the Liberal government that has just been replaced by a Conservative government, wich Conservative government has affirmed its intention to stay the course.

[GMMAC]

Sorry, it's Jack Layton, Leader of Canada's openly socialist ( as opposed to the Liberals & Bloc Quebecois which won't admit as much) New Democratic Party most commonly referred to as the NDP.

Imagine old labor & the real moonbat lunatic fringe of your 'Rats leaving that party to form another one which prefers to lose elections rather than compromise their imagined high principles.

Oh, wait ... forgot the stateside moonbats have already, instead of leaving, single-handedly converted the 'Rats into exactly that sort of Party ... snicker!
(... and to America's benefit!)