Photo: NDP’s Jack Layton with Nunavik’s Saganash

Jack Layton, shown here with the NDP’s Roméo Saganash, now MP for Abitibi-James Bay-Nunavik-Eeyou, during a campaign stop in Val d’Or last spring, announced July 25 that he would take a temporary leave of absence as leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada due to a new diagnosis of cancer. “I’m going to fight this cancer now, so I can be back to fight for families when Parliament resumes,” Layton, 61, said in a statement. (FILE PHOTO)