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FortierWatch '08: Who knew there was an East Block in Vaudreuil Soulanges?

by kadyomalley on Monday, September 8, 2008 10:14am - 14 Comments

Perhaps, as the ITQ correspondent who sent us this shot suggested, he’s just there to pick up a copy of the constitution to find out if he really does have to resign from the Senate before going out on the hustings.

Update! ITQ gets results for Canadians. Fortier resigns!

Tags: Election Watch, FortierWatch, the unpleasant matter of the law

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David

he can hust all he wants, but he can’t put his name on Elections Canada’s ballot until he gets his arse out of his big red chair.

How fine will he cut it, I wonder?
DL

Fortier might very well lose the election in Vaudreuil-Soulanges!
Liz

CBC is reporting that Fortier has resigned.

WTG Kady, keep holding their feet to the fire!
http://www.macleans.ca Kady O’Malley

I’m almost sorry that I’ll have to retire the FortierWatch tag – but ITQ can always make his a riding to watch! I’ll update the post as soon as there’s an official release.
john g

Come on Kady. You are being petty. He resigned one day after the election call. Promise made, promise kept. I doubt your gentle prodding had anything to do with it.

But his riding is definitely one to watch.
David

De Cotret! I knew there was another one.
T. Thwim

Well.. good to know at least one member of Harper’s cabinet can keep a promise.
Anon

Kady, aren’t you going on one of ‘em Leader’s Tours? Go on Jack’s – I think that has megalomaniacally humorous possibilities written all over it as he interviews for 24 Sussex but ends up losing 24 seats.
Bruce

Now that he has resigned as a Senator, I don’t believe he can carry on as a Cabinet Minister, since Cabinet, by definition, is comprised of Members of the House or the Senate.

Hmmmmm.
Paul Wells

Bruce: No such definition. You or I could be cabinet ministers. There’s a longstanding societal druther to the effect that ministers should be in Parliament somewhere, but it’s not written down noplace. Lucien Bouchard, Stéphane Dion and Pierre Pettigrew all sat at the federal cabinet table before winning seats in the Commons, and if memory serves, Bernie Boudreau quit the Senate to run for Chrétien in 2000 (and lost).
T. Thwim

And this is what makes Harper’s breaking of that promise on his first day in power so egregious. Harper wanted representation for Montreal, the supporters say, yet he could have been appointed to Cabinet as a nobody.

No, the only reason Harper had to appoint Fortier to begin with was to give a friend the pay, perks, and pension of a senator.
Bruce

Thanks for the clarification Paul.

So, we could be Cabinet Minister, eh??!!

As I said earlier…hmmmmm.
madeyoulook

Well, I for one am very glad we went through round after round of hair splitting late last week on the propriety of the sequence of events for a resigning senator to run as an MP. Congratulations, monsieur Fortier, you have lived up to the sort-of consensus decision laid out for you in Blog Central.
Darren Trent

If he wins a riding like Vaudreil, then the CPC will get the majority of Quebec seats, and their majority.