06-06-2013, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kelowna
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Conservative MP quits
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/new...ate=2013-06-06
Seems like the Cons are starting to unravel. MacKay even said he'd consider quitting if there is a change on how the party elects a leader.
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06-06-2013, 02:58 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Someone is betting we are going to have a new PM next election.
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06-06-2013, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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In before the anti-pinko crowd talks about Trudeau's lack of experience
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06-06-2013, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kelowna
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
Someone is betting we are going to have a new PM next election.
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Yep, I'd say the PM has burned pretty much all his goodwill off.
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06-06-2013, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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In before they say he is running on his dads name!
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06-06-2013, 03:01 PM
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Has lived the dream!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home...
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Actually I applaud why he quit the party. For a party that wanted to cut out government waste and be open and accountable they have done anything but. Add in all the recent senate scandals and citizens have a right to know where this money is going.
The fact that his proposed bill got butchered so much is proof that the Cons are unwilling to do what so many of them campaigned on.
Last edited by Daradon; 06-06-2013 at 03:08 PM.
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06-06-2013, 03:04 PM
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I wonder what Rob Anders thinks of this. I mean he is the most constricted, muzzled mp in Canadian history, is he not?
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06-06-2013, 03:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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"It’s difficult as a lawyer and as a member of parliament to find my role and to be subservient to masters half my age who work in the prime ministers office who are telling me how to vote on matters and are telling me what questions to ask"
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I find this interesting, how is it relevant? Are people that are younger than him incapable?
Get off his lawn!
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06-06-2013, 03:17 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Rathji
I find this interesting, how is it relevant? Are people that are younger than him incapable?
Get off his lawn!
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I've heard the PMO staff described as a bunch of uneducated twenty-something farm boys by someone familiar with them. I don't know how accurate that description is but given how much power they have if it is true I could see how an MP with his background could feel that way.
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06-06-2013, 03:19 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
I wonder what Rob Anders thinks of this. I mean he is the most constricted, muzzled mp in Canadian history, is he not?
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He supports Rathgeber.
Too bad I wasn't in before the requisite Rob Anders jokes. 
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06-06-2013, 03:26 PM
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Where are all the PC lovers on CP? Must be a negative news story against Harper... hehe
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06-06-2013, 03:38 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Yep, I'd say the PM has burned pretty much all his goodwill off.
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The amazing thing to me is he gained his political capital with garbage policies (GST cut), then spent it on garbage policies (omnibus crime bill). If he had used his political capital on something better, like getting Northern Gateway through, I'd be more forgiving of the bad populism that gained him that capital.
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06-06-2013, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by SebC
The amazing thing to me is he gained his political capital with garbage policies (GST cut), then spent it on garbage policies (omnibus crime bill). If he had used his political capital on something better, like getting Northern Gateway through, I'd be more forgiving of the bad populism that gained him that capital.
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But, but the Action Plan commercials!
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06-06-2013, 03:54 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
But, but the Action Plan commercials!
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The Economic Action Plan that they were forced into by threat of a non-confidence vote?
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06-06-2013, 03:56 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
Where are all the PC lovers on CP? Must be a negative news story against Harper... hehe
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It's been posted for a whole hour and most PC lovers have jobs. 
That aside, I think it is great that he is putting his constituents before the party. That is what they all should be doing. The party didn't elect them.
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06-06-2013, 03:58 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by RubberDuck
That aside, I think it is great that he is putting his constituents before the party. That is what they all should be doing. The party didn't elect them.
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But they nominated him in St. Albert, which is as good as an appointment. So he owes them!
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06-06-2013, 03:59 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by RubberDuck
That aside, I think it is great that he is putting his constituents before the party. That is what they all should be doing. The party didn't elect them.
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Anders got elected because of his party, not because constituents like him.
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06-06-2013, 03:59 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RubberDuck
It's been posted for a whole hour and most PC lovers have jobs.
That aside, I think it is great that he is putting his constituents before the party. That is what they all should be doing. The party didn't elect them. |
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06-06-2013, 04:16 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by troutman
Anders got elected because of his party, not because constituents like him.
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Anders yes, but Rathgerber?
I really do wish more MP's would do this no matter what party's banner they were elected under. I have always hated the idea of whipped votes and I very much respect his decision.
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06-06-2013, 04:33 PM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Looks like the beginning of the end for Harper and his CPC party.
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