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Au revoir, Judy Wasylycia-Leis

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:47pm - 15 Comments

The NDP MP is stepping away, maybe to run for mayor of Winnipeg.

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  • Dot

    Surprised there was no RCMP press release.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/WDM WDM

    Happy Trails Judy

  • Kevin

    I was never a fan, but the House will definitely be a more boring place now. Felt the same way when Judy LaMarsh left, when Flora MacDonald left, when Sheila Copps left. All formidable ladies with an unshakeable love of Canada.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/WDM WDM

    Wonder whatever happened to that guy who beat Flora MacDonald in 1988….

  • John W.

    Who would you rather have show up at your farewell party Judy, Ralph Goodale or former RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli? I guess that one is not too hard to figure out.

  • Kevin

    Hopefully he will do the right thing for Canada this afternoon after QP.

  • MacLean's Regular

    Heh. Thank you for saying something amusing to pre-empt my reaction, which was going to be rather bilious.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

    Bilious? You? Never. ;-)

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/PolJunkie PolJunkie

    Best of luck, Judy

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Tceh Tceh

    Good riddance Judy. Don't let the door hit you in the be-hind.

    She wasn't on my radar screen until as NDP finance critic she bought into the CONservative plan to double tax Income Trusts and caused Canadian Investors to lose $35 billion in market value in a few days in October 2006.

    Neither she or the NDP have ever been able to adequately explain why they knee-capped investors but they did do it when they supported the Conservative "Tax Fairness Plan"

    If she is as inept managing the finances of Winnipeg as she was in her role as NDP finance critic standby for a Greek style bailout.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Halo_Override Halo_Override

    When it comes to Winnipeg, neither Judy, I, nor you could do worse. Winnipeg desperately needs the boost a competent, focused mayor might be able to provide.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/sourstud sourstud

    Winnipeg has a perfectly competent mayor in Sam Katz. If she runs, she won't stand a chance.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/TwoYen TwoYen

    I'd love to go to a farewell for Ralph. He is way beyond his best before date.

  • MBToday

    Sure if you like policies that are made up one week, refined the next week, bullied through the council in the third week and then "fixed" in the fourth week. I do not if I will vote for Judy but never for Sam.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/john_g2708 john g

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ralph-goodale-holds-a-grudge/article1551390/

    Classy move Ralph. Real classy.

    Wonder how many Liberals will follow his edict.

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