jack layton. [cheering] >> we will be hearing from jack layton in a few minutes' time.out her husband now. >> emission for canada. jack has always been my inspiration and always will be. [cheering] >> when i was first elected as the member of parliament -- >> alright, we are switching from bolivia to the leader of the opposition at least for one more night michael ignatieff and his wife speaking to their supporters at a difficult life traveling badly and the own party dillinger 33 seats right now and the party in canada and the last time we looked at measure of the vote was under 20%. so what does he say? let's listen in. [applause] >> good evening, friends, members of this great and property. i want to first of all of her my open-heart congratulations to the prime minister stephen carper and my congratulations also to the new leader of the official opposition jack layton, offered to him on behalf of my party sincere congratulations to opponents. [speaking french] >> translator: but also like to offer primm minister carper and layton my most sincere congratulations for

jack layton's history is managing to make change and get things done.st all odds. we have a clear set of goals that we want to achieve. we are going to find every avenue we can to move forward with those goals. >> thank you. we will be watching with interest. the collapse of the liberal party on monday's election is still being discussed. how did the party lose 43 seats? what went wrong? what will become of the party and its popular vote? who will take over as leader after michael ignatieff stepped down yesterday. during the now is carolyn bennett. she saw many --joining me now is carolyn bennett. sheets of many fellow liberals go down in defeat. i will ask you a question you ask yourself and many have asked you. what happened on monday night? what cost you so many seeds and your bid for government? >> the main thing was the orange crush. it ate into what many liberals needed in order to win. in a lot of our writings, there is a conservative core of 30%. when the liberals pulled out, you got beaten from the left as well. we lost a lot of good members of

maybe this time around, it will be jack layton. is nothing learned? is this a new style of politics ? remembe >> it was not just that the liberals were being attacked. they never responded. they probably did not have the money to respond. 47 years, the airwaves were packed with ads saying that he loved america more than canada and was an elitist. you never really heard anything from him until the election. -- for years, you heard those things. they have to respond right away. >> i agree. it was like somebody was trying to fight a tank with a flame thrower. you cannot win the war like that. you have to put your best efforts into fighting those kinds of tactics . >> you seem to be suggesting getting back in the trenches to sell the party. >> the liberals got away from that. they seem to understand the need to do that. >> the years of touring did not work? >> if he had done that in the first year, it may have had a bigger impact. by the time he did that, he had already been defined by the conservatives. >> there is a lot to watch. we still do not have th

we don't write anybody off because of their party strake and i know certainly jack layton's history isnaging to make change and get things in particular in ontario sora does needed in order order to win. so in a lot of fire writings, there is a conservative core of about 30% and when the liberal sword of plurality gets eaten from the left as well, we lost a lot of good members of parliament. >> what does that mean? and orange wave in popularity, what does that mean? as you know, all those go down to defeat. what does that mean about the party's message? how do you differentiate two parties of the opposition won from the other? which you take from that? >> it wasn't as much a message that i think we had a really good platform that appeals to a lot of traditional mvp strategic voters. i think i later performed extremely well, but i think with the excitement around the rise of the nep and supporters decided it would be okay for them to vote ndp this time. i think particularly glenn pearson munden felt that it is that a lot of calls from people saying my word, we thought you'd be okay even