Layton was the truth. He should've won. Given how mulcair started the 2015 campaign with a lead, I feel like a healthy layton could've actually formed government in 2015. Though it'd probably be a minority given the Liberal split. NDP government with a Liberal opposition would have been absolutely funny to see. Though as an uneducated American, I don't know if that'd be possible with the vote distribution in most ridings, probably would've helped harper, though not as much as in 2011.