I see Bob Rae is out swinging at Jack Layton’s ghost today.

“There is a terrible sense of irony that while Mr. Layton didn’t hesitate to take a run at Mr. Dion in 2007, he didn’t seem to have the same view about his candidate or member from Outremont, Mr. Mulcair,” suggested Rae in the Globe and Mail.

It’s funny, the Liberal leader, simply assuming what Layton’s position would be today when he was clear at the time. 

In 2007, Layton’s position was that Members of Parliament were OK to hold dual citizenship (as several of his MPs did), but that a leader of a party should only hold Canadian citizenship. 

Albeit a nuanced position, Rae is a smart fellow and surely could figure out what Layton meant. But no, Rae decided to reinterpret the Layton position as, roughly translated: “Layton would have been A-OK with Tom Mulcair retaining his French citizenship as PM.” 

Either he didn’t check the facts, or he didn’t want them to get the way of a good argument.