Jack Layton's funeral & etc.

[lolaraincoat]

I just got back from the funeral procession, and then the funeral, for Jack Layton.

Comments

[fishwhistle]

I'm pretty sure that was more than a couple thousand, but I haven't seen estimates yet.

[lolaraincoat]

Ah! that was ambiguous writing on my part. I meant, the part of the crowd we could see, that we were standing in, outside Roy Thompson Hall during the service was perhaps a couple of thousand. I'm pretty sure there were many more on the other side of the building, on Nathan Philips Square, etc.

[amelia_eve]

Thanks for writing about this. I'm so glad you got to go. That is the kind of thing that makes living in a big city so wonderful.

[lolaraincoat]

Yes, I'm glad too! And Toronto was so enriched by having Jack Layton on the City Council for so many years - it would not have become such a great city without him.