Canadians! C'mon now...

[Hush Darlin]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

well Tropi if she is use to get what she wants how come she did not get leadership of the Coservative or better yet since she defected why Paul Martin did not step down as party leader and give her leadeship

[RichD]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

Originally posted by Tropicana:
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Originally posted by Sweetssop:
[QB] from what I have been hearing on the streets here a lot of people are happy with her decision to defect.

Have you listened to how she is getting thrased on some of the call in shows. Have you seen the press coverage?

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Do you listen to those shows regularly? I do(I commute so i spend a couple hours a day inthe car listening tho these guys) and their position is consistent with their political agenda....did not hear a peep out of those guys/gals when she was sitting quietly on the right of the house.

this morning those same radio guy are arguing thta there is nothing worng with refering to a woman as a whore (it just a good descriptive english word. )

How is the press coverage from those who don't have a political axe to grind with the liberals?

[RichD]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

Originally posted by Breeze:
[qb] Rich...

What is a readerman? [/qb]

someone who proports to be able to see into the future.

[mountaingal]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

Originally posted by RichD:
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Originally posted by Tropicana:
[qb]

Originally posted by Sweetssop:
[QB] from what I have been hearing on the streets here a lot of people are happy with her decision to defect.

Have you listened to how she is getting thrased on some of the call in shows. Have you seen the press coverage?

[/qb]

Do you listen to those shows regularly? I do(I commute so i spend a couple hours a day inthe car listening tho these guys) and their position is consistent with their political agenda....did not hear a peep out of those guys/gals when she was sitting quietly on the right of the house.

this morning those same radio guy are arguing thta there is nothing worng with refering to a woman as a whore (it just a good descriptive english word. )

How is the press coverage from those who don't have a political axe to grind with the liberals? [/qb]

so true, Rich. Breakfast Television, for example, refuses to position constituent reaction as anything but negative. if you were to listen to just that station, you'd get the sense that Belinda had no support in her constituency.

and the sexist comments made about her. At least one MP had the grace to withdraw his comments about her "whoring herself".

[Tropicana]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

Originally posted by Sweetssop:
well Tropi if she is use to get what she wants how come she did not get leadership of the Coservative or better yet since she defected why Paul Martin did not step down as party leader and give her leadeship

This is probably one of the few times she didn't get what she wanted and like a spoiled brat she crossed the floor. Re: Martin....TRUST me when he steps down she WILL go for the leadership/

[Tropicana]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

Even the AMERICANS are talking abou this one:

Stronach's power play electrifies CNN pundits

She stunned a nation, broke her boyfriend's heart, infuriated the federal Conservatives and almost single-handedly saved Canada's Liberal government — which made Belinda Stronach CNN's Political Play of the Week.

Describing her as a wealthy femme fatale and Bill Clinton's "good friend," the cable news network lauded her yesterday for her astonishing switch from the Tory front bench to the Liberal cabinet two days before a vote that saved the minority government.

"Stronach made a move that shocked the normally staid world of Canadian politics," reported CNN's Bill Schneider. "Stronach switched parties — it would be like (Republican House majority leader) Tom DeLay becoming a Democrat."

Schneider noted a "complicating factor — her relationship with the deputy leader of the Conservative party. CNN aired a clip of a "devastated" Peter MacKay saying he ``didn't see this coming."Some cringe-worthy clips were in the piece — notably two provincial Tories, Ontario's Bob Runciman and Alberta's Tony Abbott, shooting sexist language Stronach's way in comments that seemed to stun even Schneider, a veteran U.S. political commentator who has seen some serious mud slung.

Runciman was shown calling her "an attractive dipstick" as Abbott accused her of "whoring" herself to the Liberals — for which he later apologized.

"Talk about going over the line," Schneider added. He compared the Stronach affair to "a film noir — betrayal, dangerous liaisons, in an exotic and alluring locale" — before adding incredulously: "Canada?"

CANADIAN PRESS

[Tropicana]

Re: Canadians! C'mon now...

Here is the CNN article that called Belinda's move the political play of the week including Stronach looking smug and pleased with herself:



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Friday, May 20, 2005 Posted: 2259 GMT

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A political sensation in Canada. Isn't that an oxymoron?

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No. It's the political Play of the Week.

It's like a film noir. Betrayal. Dangerous liaisons. In an exotic and alluring locale -- Canada?

The femme fatale? Belinda Stronach, heiress to an auto parts fortune.

In 2003, Fortune Magazine ranked Stronach the second most powerful woman in international business.

She's also a good friend of Bill Clinton's, something that has not escaped the attention of the tabloids.

This week, Stronach made a move that shocked the normally staid world of Canadian politics.

Canada's government, headed by Liberal Party Prime Minister Paul Martin, is immersed in scandal. This week, he faced a showdown vote in parliament aimed at bringing his government down. It was excruciatingly close.

Then on Tuesday, Stronach, a Conservative legislator, made her move.

"I am very pleased to announce that Miss Stronach will cross the floor and has agreed to join the Cabinet," the prime minister said.

Stronach switched parties! It would be like House Republican leader Tom DeLay becoming a Democrat.

There was a complicating factor. Her relationship with the deputy leader of the Conservative Party.

"At the center of this drama is a very, very personal matter, which is her relationship with Peter MacKay," Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail said. "And she dumped him. She dumped the party and she dumped him simultaneously."

MacKay was surprised by her move. "I just didn't see it coming," he said.

And he was devastated: "My heart's a little banged up, but that'll heal."

Stronach drew harsh criticism.

"I think she sort of defined herself as a dipstick -- an attractive one, but still a dipstick," former Cabinet Minister Bob Runciman said.

"It's a little rich girl who is basically whoring herself to the Liberals," Conservative legislator Tony Abbott said.

Talk about going over the line.

"Being called a whore, being called a dipstick, is quite different than being told that one has fashionable shoes," one female lawmaker said.

What about the government? Did it survive?

Yes, by one vote.

"They say politics is boring, but not anymore," one Canadian observed. "It's more like soap opera now."

And more like the political Play of the Week.

Canada has been moving away from the United States on policies. Like same-sex marriage. And marijuana. And Iraq.

But Canada's politics are beginning to look more and more American

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