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Thomas Mulcair almost became Tory adviser in 2007: report


Political | 207675 hits | Jun 30 8:19 am | Posted by: ShepherdsDog
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A report published online by Maclean's magazine says NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair was in discussions in 2007 to join the Conservative Party as a senior adviser on the environment to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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  1. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:23 pm
    Dimitri Soudas, who was Harper's press secretary at the time, told Maclean's he was authorized to offer up to $180,000 a year but Mulcair wanted $300,000. Soudas says after he said he couldn't go higher than $180,000, he never heard from Mulcair again.


    So was it capital or principle that was the tipping point?

  2. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:25 pm
    Mulcair wanted people to bend the rules so he could get $300,000. A true Dipper. NDP = No Damn Principles.

    -J.

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:36 pm
    "CDN_PATRIOT" said
    Mulcair wanted people to bend the rules so he could get $300,000. A true Dipper. NDP = No Damn Principles.

    -J.


    Or a true Conservative - charging all the market will bear. :idea:

  4. by avatar andyt
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:39 pm
    Mulcair says he didn't take the position because of disagreements on the environment.

    This should make people happy - shows that Mulcair isn't the raving socialist people think he is. Doesn't make me happy, since I don't just want to vote for another Harper.

  5. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:41 pm
    Just a typical politician....an unrepentant opportunist. Not the first conservative from Quebec to lead a socialist party....Lucien Bouchard anyone.

  6. by avatar andyt
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:47 pm
    Well, people complain that pols aren't responsive to the will of the electorate. Seems to me an opportunist will be far more responsive to the majority than someone standing on principle, if that principle conflicts with what the majority wants.

    A conservative would say Harper stands for principles, while a left leaning pol is an ideologoue. And lefty would just reverse the two.

    The main principle I want a pol to stand on is pragmatism, not rigid dogma.

  7. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:56 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    Mulcair wanted people to bend the rules so he could get $300,000. A true Dipper. NDP = No Damn Principles.

    -J.


    Or a true Conservative - charging all the market will bear. :idea:

    :roll:

    You're mistaking him for a Liberal.

    C'mon man.


    -J.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:15 pm
    "CDN_PATRIOT" said
    Mulcair wanted people to bend the rules so he could get $300,000. A true Dipper. NDP = No Damn Principles.

    -J.


    Or a true Conservative - charging all the market will bear. :idea:

    :roll:

    You're mistaking him for a Liberal.

    C'mon man.


    -J.

    He was Environment minister in Jean Charet's (a former Conservative) Liberal government. And maximizing profit it a very Keynesian thing to do. ;) Total Conservative philosophy.

    If it were a Liberal philosophy, it would have to go to a committee for study first so they could tax it harder.

  9. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:17 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    He was Environment minister in Jean Charet's (a former Conservative) Liberal government. And maximizing profit it a very Keynesian thing to do. ;) Total Conservative philosophy.

    If it were a Liberal philosophy, it would have to go to a committee for study first so they could tax it harder.
    And bill the taxpayer for the study.

  10. by avatar Zipperfish  Gold Member
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:42 pm
    Kind of recycled news. Guess we are in election mode.

  11. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:59 pm
    "Zipperfish" said
    Kind of recycled news. Guess we are in election mode.

    Ya, I had been feeling like that since last summer. Only now the super PACs are coming out.

  12. by avatar DrCaleb
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:59 pm
    "Zipperfish" said
    Kind of recycled news. Guess we are in election mode.


    I suppose that revealing this was supposed to highlight that Mulcair was far more right wing than he appears now. But all it succeeds in doing is to highlight how little the Conservatives have done in regards to protecting the environment, and instead have weakened protections for it.

  13. by avatar andyt
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:01 pm
    IF Mulcair is secretly a bit more economically right wing than he seems, that's all good. As long as right wing doesn't all of a sudden mean keeping C51 or such.

  14. by avatar BRAH
    Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:51 pm
    Meh!



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