OTTAWA – A Conservative MP is apologizing for issuing a news release that compared Canadian police chiefs to a cult and urged Liberals to beat their leader, Michael Ignatieff, “black and blue.”<\/p>\n
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The release angrily denounced Ignatieff’s decision to require all Liberal MPs to vote against a private member’s bill that would scrap the controversial long-gun registry.<\/p>\n
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In the release, Breitkreuz, a passionate, longtime gun registry foe, is quoted as saying Ignatieff is “a bully who may well be committing political suicide.”<\/p>\n
“With tactics like this, I doubt he’ll be missed on either side of the House,” the release said.<\/p>\n
Breitkreuz was quoted calling Ignatieff’s attempt to head off elimination of the registry “an act of desperation that insults the intellect of Canadians.”<\/p>\n
“His true colours are showing and, if his caucus has any integrity, those colours should be black and blue.”<\/p>\n
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police also wound up in the news release’s cross-hairs as it mocked opposition MPs’ claims that the registry helps save lives.<\/p>\n
“It’s like a cult that is led by organizations of police chiefs who pretend the registry helps them do their jobs. They should be ashamed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I especially enjoy it when Breitkreuz says that Ignatieff <\/span>is the one insulting the intellect of Canadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Give up? Michael Ignatieff, if MP Garry Breitkreuz gets his way: OTTAWA – A Conservative MP is apologizing for issuing a news release that compared Canadian police chiefs to a cult and urged Liberals to beat their leader, Michael Ignatieff, “black and blue.” […] The release angrily denounced Ignatieff’s decision to require all Liberal MPs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}