Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party leader and Official Opposition leader, has died after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 61.
Layton had been on a leave of absence as party leader since July 25. He had taken time off to fight a second and much more serious struggle with cancer.
“Like my dad, I am a fighter. And I will beat this,” Layton told reporters in February 2010 as he announced that he had been battling prostate cancer for the previous few months.
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