Boy, does Wajid Khan have a deal for Stephen Harper.
For sale: one used MP, in decent shape. Low mileage in government. Sun roof and a/c just installed for Mid-East trip. Can be easily certified using party manual. Brakes need work. Convertible.
Bonus: sale includes tickets to a Toronto Maple Leaf hockey game with colour commentary from the next seat by Gord Stellick.
Yes, here we a go-go again. Is two-time MP Wajid Khan going to stay a Liberal or jump to the Conservatives?
If he does jump, he’s not going to get a Cabinet post, at least not unless Harper is going to create a new portfolio for him. Harper announced his big shuffle this morning (To the strains of the theme song, That’ll Do Rona, Rona - Run, Run.) It was a No Khan Do for the MP from Mississauga-Streetsville.
With speculation rising again that his appointment as a special advisor to Harper was actually a co-op placement with the new government, Khan is fast running out of allies.
His Liberal caucus colleagues are obviously nonplussed by his offsides run for the Tories. From Harper’s point of view, it would be wonderful to have an incumbent running in all-red Mississauga but will Khan be a detriment on the hustings in what is likely to be a very close race?
How will the Tory faithful in the riding feel about working for a guy they vilified last time around as an outsider who had broken his promise in his first run for office to move to Mississauga?
At the all-candidates’ session for Mississauga-Streetsville sponsored by Rogers Television last January, one candidate uttered these immortal words: “I will never cross the floor, and that’s my word, and my word is gold.”
Sorry about the tease. It actually wasn’t Khan. It was Raminder Gill, the Tory candidate who was being asked about the fact that he became a provincial Tory MPP after running unsuccessfully for the federal Liberal nomination in Malton.
How about this scenario for the next federal election in Mississauga-Streetsville? Khan switches to the Tories, Gill runs for the Liberals and the public becomes so disenchanted with the process that the election is won by a used car salesman to be named later.
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When "opportunism" knocks, welcome to Pals of the new Al Paladini CIub. And I thought the Common Same Revolution approach was dead. Harper just needs to improve his golf club swing, hire an undertaker then send Minister’s Without Portfolios around the world to invent novel world crisis.
Posted by Wayne Nagy | January 6, 2007 2:15 AM
Posted on January 6, 2007 02:15
John, I bet you $20 dollars that Bob Rae will defect to the Marxist/Leninist Party within 3 years.
Posted by crazyrabbits | January 5, 2007 8:12 PM
Posted on January 5, 2007 20:12
Gone are the days of Party Loyalties which makes one wonder if the Party System is alive.
After the events of the past three years and so many MP's jumped ship am not surprised that Khan joined the list. Most MP's only after what THEY can get out of a deal... losing all hope and faith in politicians...
Posted by Irene Gabon | January 5, 2007 4:31 PM
Posted on January 5, 2007 16:31
Ok Wajid Khan, its time for a bielection. If you have any credibility left in you, you will do the honourable thing. I think its a disgrace how elected representatives can switch back and forth from party to party. What is going on in this country. I am the people of Mississauga-Streetsville to stand up this time and say enough is enough!
Posted by Sebastian H | January 5, 2007 3:53 PM
Posted on January 5, 2007 15:53
Where have you gone, Paul Martin, a nation turns its skeptical eyes to you ...
wait, that ship has sailed .... Hey, you want to sit down and have a beer, Wajid's your guy ... really, a goodfella ... but this crossing the floor stuff is no good ... it makes you seem like, well, a used car salesman ... your political line of credit here isn't deep ... the good people of Streetsville elected a LIBERAL ... if you want to change, do it the old-fashioned way ... shoot your mouth off until Dion fires you! Then, run for city council!
--gdt
Posted by GDT | January 5, 2007 12:43 PM
Posted on January 5, 2007 12:43
Hi again, John.
Over the holidays, I played Trivial Pursuit and found out that in one Idaho municipality, Mr. Potato Head received FOUR write-in votes!
I voted for Wajid Khan to STOP Stephen Harper.
HAHAHAHAHA... the joke's on me, huh?
Now, I've concluded that Khan was never a Liberal. Just sniffed the wind and realized the 905 is red territory and if he wanted his foot in Ottawa he'd have to "play" Liberal.
Actually, that's Harper's BEST strategy for the spring election. Get conservatives to run as Liberals.
It happens in nature all the time --creatures pretending to be something they're not.
bugs pretending to be sticks.
bugs pretending to be leaves.
bugs pretending to be other bugs.
So why can't human society have:
politicians pretending Liberal party affiliation just to get IN 905?
politicians pretending to serve the Public?
politicians pretending that Public Service is an honourable calling?
politicians pretending they value democracy?
politicians pretending PERIOD?
I wonder if a Federal ballot allows for write-in votes?... Do you know, John? (I've SO-HAD-IT-THROUGH holding my nose and voting) Plus I want to introduce Mr. Potato Head to Canada.
Signed,
The (CRIPES, THERE'S NO BOTTOM TO THIS BUCKET!) Mississauga Muse
Posted by The Mississauga Muse | January 4, 2007 11:19 PM
Posted on January 4, 2007 23:19