Interesting Bits from the Past

[Riverwind]

I found this on another blog:

Here's a bit of history from the last

minority Parliament that may be of interest.

From the book, "200 Days:Joe Clark in Power" by Warner Troyer, pp.161-162

"One of the Socred M.P.s, unilingual

francophone Richard Janelle, bolted his party and joined the Prime Minister for an announcement he would henceforth sit in the government benches. There had been no price or promises exacted for the defection,

said (Joe) Clark. (And indeed Janelle had to wait several weeks for his appointment as a parliamentary secretary.)"

"...Roch Lasalle redoubled his efforts

to attract more recruits from both Socred and Liberal Quebec ranks...

But by late September Joe Clark had

to put Lasalle on a shorter leash. One Liberal M.P.,Celine Hervieux-Payette, told reporters she'd been guaranteed a cabinet post if she'd switch parties."

"(Social Credit leader) Fabian Roy may have had the last laugh. On September 28 it was revealed he'd written R.H. Simmonds, Commissioner of the RCMP, asking for a full investigation of possible illegal activities by Progressive Conservatives who were the subject of "rumours that the M.P. for Lotbiniere [Janelle] was offered a post" to defect. Clark's Solicitor

General Allen Lawrence felt obliged to reply that the charges were "some sort of public relations dodge by the

Social Credit"

[Shakeyhands]

Interesting how it all works sometimes. I still think Grewal is full of it though....

People tend to forget that we voted in a minority and in order to get things done there needs to be some negotiation and give and take.