NDP council must decide — what would Jack want?

Actually no.

Jack Layton was a great leader but he's gone now.

What would work for him will not work for anyone else -- imagine the winner of the election, Stephen Harper, trying to use Jack's 'sunny ways'!

What the NDP council must do is decide what is the best way to pick a successor to Jack. Trying to figure out WWJ do (where 'J' is Jack) is not necessarily the same thing:

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September 4, 2011
Tim Harper      
National Affairs Columnist     
 
OTTAWA

When it convenes later this week to fire the starting gun on the most important leadership race in party history, the NDP's governing council has never had a tougher task.

First, members must divine Jack Layton's words from the grave as they set the timing and terms of the race to replace the late leader.