From the party that brought you dead dogs on membership lists comes a new example of falling upward. This weekend, the Globe and Mail's Jane Taber reported, "senior Liberal insiders expect former Vancouver Kingsway MP Sophia Leung to be appointed to the Senate in September when long-time Liberal senator Edward Lawson retires." Astute readers will remember Ms. Leung stepped aside to allow forest company chief executive officer David Emerson to run in her riding. Among her qualifications for the senate slot: being voted year after year as the worst orator in the House of Commons since at least 2000, according to an annual survey of parliamentary staffers by The Hill Times. But, since no one really listens to senators anyways, her Toastmasterless skills might not matter. David Anderson, on the other hand, has been called a lot of things, but never the worst orator in the House of Commons. Yet the Victoria MP is the one who was told he wouldn't be receiving a patronage appointment.
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Gee.I thought David Anderson ran this time to keep the seat warm for Mayor Lowe.You mean that doesn't count for anything?
As a Chinese living in Vancouver, I have to say that Sophia Leung doesn't deserve this seat.
So Ed "Pockets to my toes" Lawson is getting ready to "retire" from the senate chamber? I thought that the only way you "retired" as a senator was when they carried your carcass out of the chamber in a pine box.
And Sophia Leung is taking his place? If that isn't the ultimate justification in abolishing the pig's trough, I don't know what is. And the comment about "no one really listens to senators anyways" fits Leung, because frankly, she didn't listen to anyone or do anything. The biggest joke about her, is that she herself was parachuted into Vancouver Kingsway by Jean Chretien, and stepped aside to let Paul Martin parachute in Emerson.
Can anyone say Democratic Deficit in Vancouver Kingsway, where the Liberals haven't had a nomination race and a nominated candidate in 8 years??? Sidle up to the trough there Sophia and slurp away.
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