Grewal resigns.

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So certifiable nutcase MP Gurmant Grewal will not be running again for the CPC.

Random CBC Link

Yet another potential embarrassment for the Conservatives dealt with quietly and efficiently. Yet another plus for Harper et. al.

Getting worried (soon to be ex) PM Martin?

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So certifiable nutcase MP Gurmant Grewal will not be running again for the CPC.

Random CBC Link

Yet another potential embarrassment for the Conservatives dealt with quietly and efficiently. Yet another plus for Harper et. al.

Getting worried (soon to be ex) PM Martin? 

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Did he take Nina with him?

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Nope, she is running again.

Did he take Nina with him?

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Nope, she is running again.

Did he take Nina with him?

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Cool and Harper did handle that quietly (I'll have to look at the papers tomorrow).

[shoop]

It is a really good sign. No fighting or bad press. Just bye bye Grewal....

Cool and Harper did handle that quietly (I'll have to look at the papers tomorrow).

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[tml12]

It is a really good sign. No fighting or bad press. Just bye bye Grewal....

Cool and Harper did handle that quietly (I'll have to look at the papers tomorrow).

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Well Harper knew Grewal had to go.

[normanchateau]

This is the first good news in a long time for Harper. Let's not forget that Grewal won his seat last year by only a few hundred votes. The NDP was projected to take this seat easily from CPC and the local Indo-Canadian community has been campaigning for his ouster. With a new candidate, CPC is back in the running in this riding.

Too bad for Harper that Nina Grewal hasn't stepped down. She's been a largely invisible and silent MP. CPC can do better.

[Slavik44]

Too bad for Harper that Nina Grewal hasn't stepped down.  She's been a largely invisible and silent MP.  CPC can do better.

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Which could play to her advantage and the advantage of the CPC, a silent backbencher is a CPC wet dream. Generally speaking when a backbencher gets noticted it tends to be for all the wrong reasons.

[tml12]

Too bad for Harper that Nina Grewal hasn't stepped down.  She's been a largely invisible and silent MP.  CPC can do better.

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Which could play to her advantage and the advantage of the CPC, a silent backbencher is a CPC wet dream. Generally speaking when a backbencher gets noticted it tends to be for all the wrong reasons.

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You both tend to be right...

[canuckcat]

watching the Conservatives run an election campaign is painful...

i feel for them...

every time they shoot themselves in the foot...

that collective neo-con foot...

must be an ugly thing to behold by now...

maybe like Ralph Klein's nose...

sorry...

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Hmmm, the Conservatives shooting themselves in the foot is so 2004.

Neo-con is an ignorant insult and against the rules of the board.

Pretty mature to attack a Premier on his physical appearance. What was the last advertising campaign you were a model in?

watching the Conservatives run an election campaign is painful...

i feel for them...

every time they shoot themselves in the foot... 

that collective neo-con foot... 

must be an ugly thing to behold by now...

maybe like Ralph Klein's nose... 

sorry...

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Which could play to her advantage and the advantage of the CPC' date=' a silent backbencher is a CPC wet dream. Generally speaking when a backbencher gets noticted it tends to be for all the wrong reasons.

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She's not all that silent, she put forward the motion to raise the age of consent, and has been questioning about law and order and gun violence etc. She was speaking up for seniors last week as Liberal are blocking a fast track motion that would place seniors as pension recipients upon reaching age eligibility. She does her job.

Grewal did the right thing which shows some cojones and respect for the party.

[normanchateau]

I wonder if Harper pressured Grewal to resign or whether it was a spontaneous act on Grewal's part, motivated in part by polls indicating that he'd lose the 2006 election.

I'm guessing the latter given the quality of some of the other CPC candidates. At least three riding associations in Nova Scotia and four in British Columbia have picked CPC candidates with ties to Focus on the Family and other groups linked to religious, socially conservative US organizations. These "pro-family" people do not represent mainstream Canadians but they appear to play a disproportionate influence on Stephen Harper and his party. Why else would he follishly be promising to revisit C-38?

The growing number of religious zealots in the Conservative Party of Canada in 2005 are described in:

www.valleysceptic.com/conservatives_hijacked_by_zealots.html

Harper has given no indication whatsoever that he's bothered by the growing influence of these fanatically religious, socially conservative, US Republican types on CPC policies. Nor did he give any indication that he was bothered by Grewal's behaviour. Not exactly the sign of a strong leader and perhaps a predictor of his future performance in the unlikely event that he became Prime Minister.