Prime Minister Paul Martin dismissed renegade Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish from caucus today, after she made a string of controversial anti-American remarks. "I told her that even though I respect her right to express her viewpoint, I cannot, as leader of our party and of our caucus, tolerate her behaviour," Martin told reporters in a short statement outside Parliament this afternoon. "It is unacceptable." Martin said he informed Parrish of his decision a few minutes before making the announcement public on Thursday.
Rumours about a possible dismissal started circulating Wednesday, after Parrish gave the Canadian Press a particularly insightful interview. She said she wouldn't be silenced by Martin, and had no regrets over her behaviour.
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If you want to tell Carolyn how you feel about her you can go to the Carolyn Parrish website.
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Stumble It!
Guess the Prime Minister has a slightly smaller minority now.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
I'm now emailing him and telling him that's how I see this whole thing as well. I can understand Carolyn. If I was in her position and had a leader that was about to do what he is to Canada it wouldn't take much to send me out with a loud speaker and a few hundred Bush "dollies" to publicly smash and burn.
Funny how speaking openly and honestly about GW Bush can get
someone fired, yet, if your a government cronny-who lies to the public day after day, your job is secure.
Carolyn Parish is not alone with her dislike of Bush. 9 out of 10 people I speak to on a daily basis hates what he has
done to the 'Free' world. Truth is, as Canadians we all have opinions, just like arses - we think everyone else's stinks.
So, I'd like to remind everyone to stand up for yourselves, don't keep quiet about your views or let the government censor your thoughts.
4Canada forgetting to sign in in my hurry to reply.
Caroly Parrish has been fired!
I just saw Jason Kenny Con MP on Politics going on and on and on as he alw a y s does about how horrible and anti-American, anti-American, oh and she's so anti-American.
Don pointed out that American often make derogatory remarks about Canada and he hasn't heard of them being expelled from government.
Jason was so protective of his American friends and spun back to Carolyn stepping on "Dollie" Bush. Now I have to email him too and say if we feel the same way about the Cons as we do the Republicans does that make us anti-Canadian too? What a (name calling here).
Now maybe she can form a NEW party, perhaps the blatant America hating party that so many of you yearn for.
Kinda funny that you have people that keep calling us 'Soviet Canuckistan', and many goveners, members of congress etc. that are blatently anti-Canadian, and you don't hear people screaming for their removal - do you? Perhaps you aught to grow that skin a little thicker.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
Carolyn Parrish adds nothing new or constructive to the debate of cross-border issues, she only serves to amp up the rhetoric. The only people that come out looking like a "coalition of the idiots" are the voters of Mississauga-Erindale that continue to re-elect this embarrassment.
I mean seriously, when will Canadians start calling a spade a spade? If Parrish was an American, you'd be able to hear nothing by braying and neighing coming from Canada's general direction.
There's far more constructive ways to critique Bush's policies, the people who simply take the low road and encourage Carolyn Parrish are taking the easy way out.
By the sheer accident of geography, we are neighbours to the greatest nation on earth. The whiny critics of the US in our midst display a churlish envy, and in so doing, belittle all of us.
Be of good cheer Yanks - the majority of us still admire you, and yes, even love you.
Have a great thanksgiving next week.
WDL
Their long-term debt is over 7 trillion now.
We need our political leaders to constructively focus on helping us find our solutions ... and it will take every ounce of their capability and capacity.
Parrish's immature and emotional sound bites only distract us from focusing on what Canada needs to do ... she has provided nothing in this regard.
This has not about free speech ... it is all about being a committed and constructive force focussed on making Canada better. Hopefully Parrish gets the message.
Sure these are simplistic ... but energy spent on other than Canada's issues are wasted.
Change takes time ... but it happens. Political change happens relatively quickly (sub-generation) as compared to fundamental rights, religion, science. It happens as a result of the engagement of individuals.