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   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   I thing the first thing that the neophyte we know as Justin Trudeau had   
   better learn to do, is to write his own lines and stop borrowing them   
   from deceased leaders more popular than him.   
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   November 27, 2013 - the National Post   
      
      
   Chow and Mulcair fume after Trudeau uses Layton's dying words to   
   denounce NDP in victory speech   
      
      
   Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is under fire for echoing the dying words   
   of Jack Layton to denounce the NDP following Monday night's byelection   
   victories, which left Layton's widow, NDP MP Olivia Chow, "surprised and   
   disappointed."   
      
   Despite no change in seats (Liberals and Conservatives both kept two)   
   Trudeau was resoundingly declared the winner of Monday's four byelection   
   races because of the large uptick in overall support for the Grits.  The   
   young Liberal leader claimed a positive approach to politics was behind   
   his party's resurgence, which he said was being countered by a negative   
   campaign by the NDP in the contested ridings of Toronto Centre and Bourassa.   
      
   "Make no mistake, the NDP is no longer the hopeful, optimistic party of   
   Jack Layton.  It is the negative, divisive party of Thomas Mulcair. It   
   is the Liberal party tonight that proved hope is stronger than fear,   
   that positive politics can and should win out over the negative,"   
   Trudeau said Monday night.   
      
   In a letter to Canadians days before his death in August 2011, Layton   
   famously penned: "Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear."   
      
   Chow insisted Tuesday that the NDP is "the party of love, hope and   
   optimism," but also said her party should remain focused on the ruling   
   Conservatives.   
      
   "If we are to have a better country, and certainly Canadians deserve a   
   lot better, we need to focus on Stephen Harper. Yes, we are the party of   
   love, hope and optimism and let's be hopeful. Let's not be fearful of   
   each other, but let's train our eyes on the real problem, which is   
   Stephen Harper's government," the Toronto MP (and expected 2014 mayoral   
   candidate) told reporters.   
      
   The comment would seemingly put her at odds with NDP Leader Tom Muclair,   
   who has increasingly taken shots at Trudeau, whose popularity in Quebec   
   could wipe out the NDP's historic gains in the 2011 election.   
      
   Mulcair angrily denounced Trudeau's comments Tuesday.   
      
   "That Justin Trudeau would use Jack Layton's dying words as a political   
   tool says everything that needs to be said about Justin Trudeau's   
   judgment and character," he told reporters.   
      
   Tensions have risen between the two opposition parties as the Senate   
   scandal has the Harper Conservatives looking vulnerable in the next   
   election.   
      
   Several weeks ago, Mulcair told a Montreal audience that he looks   
   forward to the 2015 election because he will "wipe the floor" with   
   Trudeau in a debate.   
      
   Trudeau, whose bizarre and casual praise of China's government invited   
   easy criticism two weeks ago, stood by the Layton reference.   
      
   "The point that I made and I'm continuing to make is that this is no   
   longer Jack Layton's NDP.   It's very much Thomas Mulcair's," he said.   
   "I don't think it's negative to highlight the fact that people are being   
   negative around you when you're not attacking and not being negative."   
      
   "The NDP is probably going to have to ask themselves how they've chosen   
   to run their campaigns in the last few days."   
      
   However, Liberal flyers handed out in the contested riding of Toronto   
   Centre, denounced Mulcair as "too angry."   
      
   The Liberals and the Conservatives each held on to two seats Monday   
   night. However, the Conservative vote was down across the board and they   
   only squeaked out a 400-vote win over the Liberals in a Manitoba riding   
   they had won by a landslide in 2011.   
      
   The Liberals saw their fortunes improve in all four ridings, while the   
   NDP improved only in Toronto Centre, where they still lost to Chrystia   
   Freeland, Trudeau's star candidate and economic advisor.   
      
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