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Layton was a merchant and business executive in the family firm of Layton Brothers from 1918 to 1932. He was elected to Quebec's legislative assembly in 1936 as a member of the Union Nationale. He served as minister without portfolio in the government of Maurice Duplessis until resigining in 1939 to protest the Quebec government's opposition to conscription in World War II. He ran for re-election to the legislature as an independent candidate that year and was defeated. In the 1945 Canadian election he ran as an Independent Progressive Conservative for a seat in the Canadian House of CommonsThe House of Commons (in French, la Chambre des communes is the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of Canada which sits in the nation's capital of Ottawa, Ontario. Leadership Prime Minister and Cabinet Under the Westminster system, the prime m but was defeated coming in fourth place behind the Liberal victor, the official Progressive Conservative candidate and the CCFTommy Douglas (centre) stands in front of a CCF billboard during an election campaign in Saskatchewan. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-oper candidate.

Gilbert Layton's son, Robert LaytonRobert (Bob) E. Layton ( December 25, 1925 May 9, 2002) was a Canadian politician. Robet Layton was born in Montreal and trained as an engineer and spent much of his career in Hudson, Quebec. The son of former Quebec cabinet minister Gilbert Layton, he be, served as a federal Progressive Conservative cabinet minister in the 1980s. His grandson, Jack LaytonJohn Gilbert "Jack" Layton (b. 1950, Montreal, Quebec) is a former Toronto, Ontario city councillor and the current leader of Canada's New Democratic Party. On June 28, 2004 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Toronto%97Danf, became leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U and is currently an NDP Member of Parliament.