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Originally Posted by TitleRequired
The people leaving are part of the wing that supported Mel Norton in the last leadership race. Including supporting cast of Kelly Van Buskirk, who got a 1M$ payout for Dornan. Part of Mel Norton's campaign team.
This is the same people that failed to organize a leadership review.
I would disagree with the statement that they left due to views, but simply that they left due to a failed putsch that shouldn't have gone public.
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You can downplay it all you want, but the evidence is just not with you on this. It is unprecedented to see the amount of cabinet ministers resign. Giving up a ministers salary is no easy decision. Below is just a sliver of the evidence supporting my argument. I certainly respect anyone who puts their principles over their party, not easy in todays climate.
Trevor Holder:
"He also rapped the premier for what he called "his lack of empathy, as well as his inability to listen to valid concerns from all members of his caucus." "My political career has always been about trying to maintain balance, and if I daresay, Mr. Speaker, it's about trying to be progressive and conservative at the same time," Holder said during his speech Thursday.
Gary Crossman: “My personal and political beliefs no longer align in many ways with the direction of our party and government,” said Crossman in the post.
Jeff Carr on policy 713 (a policy put in by the higgs government BTW)
Infrastructure Minister Jeff Carr said the ability for students to confide in teachers or guidance counsellors knowing that their parents won’t be informed is an important part of the policy and shouldn’t be removed. If anything, the policy should be strengthened, he said.
“For me, it’s about the safety of the student,” he said. “It’s about having, not just the student, but all the people that are in those communities, have the comfort that they can go to somebody before they go to their parents because they don’t want to disappoint their parents, they do not want to feel unloved.
“It’s incumbent on us to continue to have those discussions, to continue to understand and educate ourselves, because many of us don’t understand what it’s like to be in a marginalized community.”
Carr said he’s been working to understand the perspective of people in the LGBTQ2 community and why the backlash against the review has been so strong.
“As soon as we start talking about effecting policy for inclusion, the people that have fought so long for inclusivity feel like they’re having something taken away,” he said.
“We have to be able to put ourselves in those shoes and understand how other people feel when we start developing these policies.”
Dorothy Shepard on policy 713
“Policy 713 is about giving educators a mechanism to promote an inclusive and respectful learning environment for children in our public schools. It’s about providing a safe place,” she said.
“It is a necessary policy that, I believe, needs to be strengthened and supported. Policies like this make the world a better place.”
Dorothy Shepard on the direction of the party:
"The way it's heading now, I think there is such a hyper-focused trend with far-right politics," she said. "That's my personal perspective."
Dorothy Shepard on the leadership of Higgs
""You do not trust the people who serve you," she wrote. "You do not value the insight that they bring to your table. You have built a system where no one takes things to the ministers anymore, they simply go to you — and you allow it."
Daniel Allain
"After that meeting, it was just time for me to take a break," he said. "I love playing a role, and some of those roles were already taken. … There wasn't a place for me."
Allain also made clear he's not comfortable with some of the social conservatives now involved with the party, including Hampton-Fundy-St. Martin's candidate Faytene Grasseschi and campaign manager Steve Outhouse.
He said they are part of the "extreme right" and their involvement goes against "the natural instincts" of the PC Party, which he said has always been closer to the centre of the political spectrum.
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