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The missing Liberals

March 24, 2010 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

FYI:

Oh to be a fly on the wall of the Liberal caucus this morning.
After tabling a motion about child and maternal health, hoping to use contraception and abortion as wedge issues on the Conservatives, the Liberals got caught in their own wedge Tuesday, losing the motion by a vote of 144 to 138.
While much of the focus was on three Liberals who voted with the Conservatives – Paul Szabo, John McKay and Dan McTeague – a bigger factor in the vote was perhaps how many Liberals didn’t show up for the vote.
While the House of Commons journals recounts who voted it doesn’t name the no shows.
While all parties had missing MPs who weren’t paired, the Liberals were missing far more than anyone else, 13 out of 77 MPs – or roughly one out of every six members of their caucus. Either a particularly virulent strain of flu is ravaging Liberal ranks at the moment or some Liberals decided to duck the vote.

Here’s who missed the vote in alphabetical order:

Angus, Charlie – NDP
Calkins, Blaine – Conservative
Dion, Stéphane – Liberal
Guarnieri, Albina – Liberal
Hughes, Carol – NDP
Jennings, Marlene – Liberal
Kania, Andrew – Liberal
Karygiannis, Jim – Liberal
Kennedy, Gerard – Liberal
Kent, Peter – Conservative
Lee, Derek – Liberal
MacAulay, Lawrence – Liberal
Malhi, Gurbax – Liberal
Neville, Anita – Liberal
Rafferty, John – NDP
Roy, Jean-Yves – Bloc Québécois
Tonks, Alan – Liberal
Volpe, Joe – Liberal
Wasylycia-Leis, Judy – NDP
Wrzesnewskyj, Borys – Liberal

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