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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 7:59 PM

Cash and Kenny Rogers

Gloria Galloway

Kenny Rogers says you never count your money when your sitting at the table. Jack Layton says that's exactly where Canadian money is counted - at the kitchen table. Still, the NDP Leader entered his third event of the day Wednesday to the strains of Mr. Rogers' song, The Gambler.
It got the small crowd at the airport in Thompson, Man., tapping their toes.

But Mr. Layton said his message is serious. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, he said, showed a lack of understanding of the problems facing Canadians when he suggested the economic downturn provided good opportunities to invest their savings.

That, said the NDP Leader, is asking Canadians to gamble with their pensions.

"Here we have a Prime Minister whose idea of a good recommendation to Canadians is to go out and play the stock exchange. I mean I just think it shows that he is totally out of touch with what people are worried about," Mr. Layton told reporters.

"That kind of gambling isn't what we need in 24 Sussex."

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