{"id":771,"date":"2006-02-06T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=771"},"modified":"2006-02-06T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T20:16:00","slug":"nice-comfy-welcome-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Nice Comfy Welcome Mat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must say, I’m very curious what the following Conservatives <\/a>have to say about David Emerson’s defection today:<\/p>\n

James Moore:
“I think it shows there are two kinds of people in public life — people with principle and people like Belinda Stronach,”<\/em><\/p>\n

Pierre Poilievre:
“It has everything to do with the fact she was offered a plum job and Paul Martin is offering every bribe he can to cling on to power,”<\/em><\/p>\n

Tony Abbott:
“To me, what it is, it’s a little rich girl basically whoring herself out to the Liberals,”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bob Runciman:
“I think she sort of defined herself as something of a dipstick — an attractive one, but still a dipstick — with what she’s done here today,”<\/em><\/p>\n

Dave Hancock:
“It’s appalling,”<\/em><\/p>\n

Bernard Lord:
“This is just another action, another moment, that breeds cynicism of electors,”<\/em>
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UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> Ahab’s Whale <\/a>has this gem from Emerson, on election night:<\/p>\n

“I’m going to be Stephen Harper’s worst enemy,” he warned. “We’re going to stir the pot and you better believe we are going to make a heck of a lot of noise.”<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, he’s certainly stirring the pot and making noise. And, considering the optics around this, his prophecy about being “Harper’s worst enemy” may not be too far off the mark.<\/p>\n

UPDATE Deux: <\/em><\/strong>Curious to see what our new Immigration Ministers has to say now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE Trois:<\/em><\/strong> More from Poilievre:<\/p>\n

Private Members Business – November 21, 2005: Bill C-251, Members of Parliament who Cross the FloorMr. Pierre Poilievre (Nepean\u2fffCarleton, CPC):<\/p>\n

Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today in support of a bill that I believe would restore some accountability around this place. I thank the hon. member across the way for having raised it. When members of the House crosses the floor, I believe they break a contract, not with their political party but with their constituents.<\/p>\n

When a member of Parliament is elected to this place, he or she is elected with a party label, having made a commitment to serve with party’s label attached to his or her name. Members of the public make their voting decision based on that commitment. Therefore, a contract is formed between the constituent and the member of Parliament.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, there’s Harper himself:<\/p>\n

“There’s no grand principle involved in this decision, just ambition.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must say, I’m very curious what the following Conservatives have to say about David Emerson’s defection today: James Moore:“I think it shows there are two kinds of people in public life — people with principle and people like Belinda Stronach,” Pierre Poilievre:“It has everything to do with the fact she was offered a plum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}