He never ran as a Liberal or crossed the floor which is what the thread is about and I gave you another deserved thumbs down.
Conservative MP Eve Adams crosses floor to Liberals
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"he surprised many who assumed he was a Liberal"
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Look Walter, I was just saying he had some Liberal values.. of course he was NOT a Liberal, never ran as a Liberal or Crossed the floor.
Ralph Klein was the best dam politician Canada ever had.
First of all portraying people in light that they are Muslims for not other reason
they have a different point of view is nonsense. As for Eve she has crossed the
floor so what. Some cross the floor in a Parliamentary system it is within the rule.
I have not been critical of those on any side that cross the floor because they
are no longer comfortable with the party they are with. No under the rules present
it is not necessary to resign and hold and election. As happens often the person
crossing the floor is defeated in the next election the electorate decided in the
end. The Tories are not trying to lose an election to get rid of the NDP that may
well happen in any event. What the problem is depending on Ontario and Quebec
the Tories could end up third the slide is on in other parts of Canada. Liberals will
take Ontario and who ends up with Quebec is not known but it won't be Conservatives.
Interesting times the floor crossing and Cabinet resignations and not running again
is a sign the Tories are in trouble at the moment
they have a different point of view is nonsense. As for Eve she has crossed the
floor so what. Some cross the floor in a Parliamentary system it is within the rule.
I have not been critical of those on any side that cross the floor because they
are no longer comfortable with the party they are with. No under the rules present
it is not necessary to resign and hold and election. As happens often the person
crossing the floor is defeated in the next election the electorate decided in the
end. The Tories are not trying to lose an election to get rid of the NDP that may
well happen in any event. What the problem is depending on Ontario and Quebec
the Tories could end up third the slide is on in other parts of Canada. Liberals will
take Ontario and who ends up with Quebec is not known but it won't be Conservatives.
Interesting times the floor crossing and Cabinet resignations and not running again
is a sign the Tories are in trouble at the moment
He was a PC too - until he disagreed with Mulroney - and went Reform. Once a turncoat....
Well, I've substantiated the claim that he grew government spending by 30% in four years and ran deficit budgets for years and I understand how, being a Conservative party mouthpiece, that is rather embarrassing for you. As to whether or not that is fiscally irresponsible, that is a matter of opinion and therefore hard to "substantiate". Fiscal conservatives like myself clearly see it that way while Dippers and social conservatives like you do not.
It may be a throwaway but it does send a message. Not too sure if politicians hear it or not since they are usually too busy talking about themselves to hear what anyone else has to say.
So uhh, I don't want to dampen the mood of this thread or anything but I think I should mention the pressing issue that a leaked sex tape of Eve going solo would not offend me in the slightest.
Again, I know everyone in here is in good bipartisan spirits and embracing this news with open arms so I duly apologize for spoiling that mood.
Again, I know everyone in here is in good bipartisan spirits and embracing this news with open arms so I duly apologize for spoiling that mood.
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So uhh, I don't want to dampen the mood of this thread or anything but I think I should mention the pressing issue that a leaked sex tape of Eve going solo would not offend me in the slightest.
Again, I know everyone in here is in good bipartisan spirits and embracing this news with open arms so I duly apologize for spoiling that mood.
I was thinking more of a group setting. Does she have a sister?
Her husband is the gold- as was noted in an article today- he knows where the bodies are buried-
John Ivison: ‘It’s all about Eve’ now, but it could be all about Dimitri later, and that’s bad for Harper | National Post
But if all he gets is her, bad move.
A humorous look at the defection.
All about Eve—and suddenly Steve
An update on the kind of day Justin Trudeau, Eve Adams and Stephen Harper are having
Paul Wells
February 9, 2015
February 9, 2015
The Canadian Greater Plumed Parliamentary Floor-Crossing is a peculiar beast. It appears at odd intervals and emits a characteristic squawk: two parts proclamation of allegiance to high ideals, one part denial of opportunism. It is amphibious and nomadic. There have been many sightings this season in Alberta. But this morning, a particularly brightly plumed specimen was spotted within sight of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa.
“One of the many things that have impressed me about Eve Adams in recent weeks is her commitment to public service,” Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, told a roomful of aghast reporters. He called his new recruit “value-driven” and pronounced himself “incredibly proud of the process we’ve established” for selecting candidates. I was unable to attend the news conference in person, and it’s probably for the best, because, simply watching it on the Internet, I had so many questions, I was fit to bust. Samples: What are the other things that have impressed him in recent weeks about Eve Adams? And: Does his process for selecting candidates involve, by any chance, a jug of hooch and a wheelbarrow?
Live sightings of the Canadian Greater Plumed Parliamentary Floor-Crossing inevitably provoke certain responses from other fauna in the fragile parliamentary ecosphere. This includes prompt assertions from the specimen’s former neighbours that they are well shut of her. And indeed, Conservatives—who were still, as recently as last week, positioning Adams in the Helena Guergis Memorial PM-Softening Seat within the camera frame with Prime Minister Stephen Harper—flocked to Twitter to announce that she was, all along, a pestilence.
Another conditioned response to a floor-crossing sighting is the chorus of protestations from members of the specimen’s new flock that any inconvenient questions are low and scurrilous. Thus it fell to Trudeau to remonstrate with scribes, who insisted on asking about Dimitri Soudas—a former prime ministerial communications director and Prime Ministerially hand-picked Conservative Party of Canada executive director—who took a break between those two jobs to “spend more time” with his family before, er, floor-crossing to Adams’s side, where he sought to arrange her nomination in a process he was contractually obligated to ignore. He told Global News his loyalty to her was “eternal” and the CBC he would "breach any contract" that forbade him from helping her. (A quick peek at Soudas’s Twitter account shows he has successfully defended his master's thesis. So there’s that.)
Trudeau and Adams were sorely vexed by this line of questioning. “This is all about Eve,” Trudeau said. Which led many of us to look up the plot of the 1950 Bette Davis melodrama All About Eve. Which cannot have been the effect Trudeau was seeking. Here’s a great line from that movie, spoken by George Sanders as the theatre critic Addison DeWitt:
The floor-crossing has been making a comeback lately after having seemed, for most of a decade, to be an endangered species. In the odd late ’90s, when the leader of the Opposition himself, Preston Manning, was proposing to mutate his own party into a hybrid with bits of a smaller conservative party, allegiances were fluid and every party sought refugees from the others. Jean Chrétien was the net winner throughout that period. On one memorable occasion, the day after Joe Clark won a by-election so he could at last lead the Progressive Conservatives from inside the House, Chrétien announced that three Quebec MPs elected as Progressive Conservatives at the previous election—David Price, Diane St.-Jacques and André Harvey—would now sit as Liberals.
Later floor-crossings seemed increasingly threadbare. Chrétien roped in Joe Peschisolido, a former long-shot Canadian Alliance leadership candidate who resembled a Dick Tracy villain. Paul Martin recruited Belinda Stronach, a car-parts heiress who was reputed to have been backed by Brian Mulroney and Mike Harris for the leadership of Stephen Harper’s party. The Liberals spent years afterward according credibility to Stronach and never noticing that their own store of credibility was being steadily depleted, perhaps in part for precisely this reason. But surely history doesn’t repeat itself.
Just before the first anniversary of his election as PM, Harper announced that Wajid Khan, a Mississauga Liberal, would sit as a Conservative, travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and counsel Harper on policy for that region. Khan was never heard from again. Harper has not managed to recruit any MPs since, though bits of the NDP keep shearing off and flying in assorted directions. Perhaps the effort no longer interests him.
I was set to spend the rest of the morning parsing the significance of the Eve Adams floor-crossing when I was interrupted by a flurry of activity across the pond. The Prime Minister had announced a cabinet shuffle. To compensate for last week’s surprise departure from politics by John Baird, Harper appointed former defence minister Rob Nicholson to Foreign Affairs; former jobs minister Jason Kenney to Defence; and former Pierre Poilievre, perhaps the Conservative MP the Conservatives’ opponents most love to hate, to Employment and Social Development. Liberals on Twitter immediately started to complain that Poilievre now holds a portfolio that once resided between the sainted hands of Ken Dryden. Guess you shouldn’t have lost all those elections, guys.
Having moved key players into key cabinet portfolios, Harper will end the day in a crisis meeting on Ukraine and Russia with the chancellor of Germany. Trudeau will come up with something, I’m sure. A fun Abacus poll last week suggested Harper is the major-party leader most respondents would trust to run a large company, counsel an investor, or negotiate a contract. Respondents imagined Trudeau would be the best leader to sing a song, babysit a pet or survive in the wilderness. Today, both leaders seemed hard at work deepening their differences.
Paul Wells on Eve Adams, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper
“One of the many things that have impressed me about Eve Adams in recent weeks is her commitment to public service,” Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, told a roomful of aghast reporters. He called his new recruit “value-driven” and pronounced himself “incredibly proud of the process we’ve established” for selecting candidates. I was unable to attend the news conference in person, and it’s probably for the best, because, simply watching it on the Internet, I had so many questions, I was fit to bust. Samples: What are the other things that have impressed him in recent weeks about Eve Adams? And: Does his process for selecting candidates involve, by any chance, a jug of hooch and a wheelbarrow?
Live sightings of the Canadian Greater Plumed Parliamentary Floor-Crossing inevitably provoke certain responses from other fauna in the fragile parliamentary ecosphere. This includes prompt assertions from the specimen’s former neighbours that they are well shut of her. And indeed, Conservatives—who were still, as recently as last week, positioning Adams in the Helena Guergis Memorial PM-Softening Seat within the camera frame with Prime Minister Stephen Harper—flocked to Twitter to announce that she was, all along, a pestilence.
Another conditioned response to a floor-crossing sighting is the chorus of protestations from members of the specimen’s new flock that any inconvenient questions are low and scurrilous. Thus it fell to Trudeau to remonstrate with scribes, who insisted on asking about Dimitri Soudas—a former prime ministerial communications director and Prime Ministerially hand-picked Conservative Party of Canada executive director—who took a break between those two jobs to “spend more time” with his family before, er, floor-crossing to Adams’s side, where he sought to arrange her nomination in a process he was contractually obligated to ignore. He told Global News his loyalty to her was “eternal” and the CBC he would "breach any contract" that forbade him from helping her. (A quick peek at Soudas’s Twitter account shows he has successfully defended his master's thesis. So there’s that.)
Trudeau and Adams were sorely vexed by this line of questioning. “This is all about Eve,” Trudeau said. Which led many of us to look up the plot of the 1950 Bette Davis melodrama All About Eve. Which cannot have been the effect Trudeau was seeking. Here’s a great line from that movie, spoken by George Sanders as the theatre critic Addison DeWitt:
“That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that in itself is probably the reason: You’re an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also our contempt for humanity and inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.”
But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
The floor-crossing has been making a comeback lately after having seemed, for most of a decade, to be an endangered species. In the odd late ’90s, when the leader of the Opposition himself, Preston Manning, was proposing to mutate his own party into a hybrid with bits of a smaller conservative party, allegiances were fluid and every party sought refugees from the others. Jean Chrétien was the net winner throughout that period. On one memorable occasion, the day after Joe Clark won a by-election so he could at last lead the Progressive Conservatives from inside the House, Chrétien announced that three Quebec MPs elected as Progressive Conservatives at the previous election—David Price, Diane St.-Jacques and André Harvey—would now sit as Liberals.
Later floor-crossings seemed increasingly threadbare. Chrétien roped in Joe Peschisolido, a former long-shot Canadian Alliance leadership candidate who resembled a Dick Tracy villain. Paul Martin recruited Belinda Stronach, a car-parts heiress who was reputed to have been backed by Brian Mulroney and Mike Harris for the leadership of Stephen Harper’s party. The Liberals spent years afterward according credibility to Stronach and never noticing that their own store of credibility was being steadily depleted, perhaps in part for precisely this reason. But surely history doesn’t repeat itself.
Just before the first anniversary of his election as PM, Harper announced that Wajid Khan, a Mississauga Liberal, would sit as a Conservative, travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and counsel Harper on policy for that region. Khan was never heard from again. Harper has not managed to recruit any MPs since, though bits of the NDP keep shearing off and flying in assorted directions. Perhaps the effort no longer interests him.
I was set to spend the rest of the morning parsing the significance of the Eve Adams floor-crossing when I was interrupted by a flurry of activity across the pond. The Prime Minister had announced a cabinet shuffle. To compensate for last week’s surprise departure from politics by John Baird, Harper appointed former defence minister Rob Nicholson to Foreign Affairs; former jobs minister Jason Kenney to Defence; and former Pierre Poilievre, perhaps the Conservative MP the Conservatives’ opponents most love to hate, to Employment and Social Development. Liberals on Twitter immediately started to complain that Poilievre now holds a portfolio that once resided between the sainted hands of Ken Dryden. Guess you shouldn’t have lost all those elections, guys.
Having moved key players into key cabinet portfolios, Harper will end the day in a crisis meeting on Ukraine and Russia with the chancellor of Germany. Trudeau will come up with something, I’m sure. A fun Abacus poll last week suggested Harper is the major-party leader most respondents would trust to run a large company, counsel an investor, or negotiate a contract. Respondents imagined Trudeau would be the best leader to sing a song, babysit a pet or survive in the wilderness. Today, both leaders seemed hard at work deepening their differences.
Paul Wells on Eve Adams, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper
Looks like he is going too. Conservative MP Eve Adams and partner Dimitri Soudas cross floor to Liberals - The Globe and Mail
I wouldn't pay too much attention to it Grumpy- what we have is a tempest in a teacup! Just a few rats jumping ship!
Shades of Helena Guergis perhaps!
Yup Imagine, even she could not tolerate the schizoid wanna be king bXstard now in power LOL.RIGHT!!
THAT Eve Adams....lol. A bloody crook, and psycho-b1tch.
Ashamed to admit, I hadn't made the connection.
She will do well with the Liberals, she has found her true home.
I'm ashamed to admit I mentioned her and ethics in the same sentence in a post below.....
Too funny.
And Justin took her.
What a maroon!!!!
lol
Yep, of course David Emerson was the worst- about a week or two after the Liberals lost the election!! That one was "criminal"!
I think if you go back and check your facts there, Bluebyrd, you'll find sweet little Evie had a few behavioural problems.....a.k.a. spoilt brat.