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Live blogging the fall of government

5:46 pm – As the time ticks down on CPAC, instrumental music is playing and is not dissimilar to the type of music that they’d play at the circus. How fitting.

5:47 pm – Three votes: C-12 Quarantine act, C-9 Economic Development Agency of Canada and Committee Reports No. 13

5:53 pm – Getting under way

5:54 pm – Voting on C-12…

5:59 pm – Conservative MPs are applauding the sick members of their party who showed up to vote as they stand to vote yea on C-12. All parties voted yea except for the Bloc. Cadman is absent. Y – 249, N – 54

6:05 pm – Voting on C-9… Y – 247, N – 54

6:16 pm – Committee Reports No. 13. Here we go!

6:17 pm – Voting on the amendment

6:27 pm – Kilgour votes against. Motion passes 153-150

6:29 pm – Voting now on an amendment… passes 153-150. Kigour voted against.

6:39 pm – Harper calls for the government to resign.

6:41 pm – Harper calls for Martin to make a motion of confidence

6:42 pm – Valeri claims Harper doesn’t know what the motion says

6:44 pm – Duceppe point of order.

6:46 pm – Motion now goes to committee

What now?

UPDATE: Blogging Tory, Monte Solberg, has a better view

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You too can meet with a senior Liberal official at an Italian restaurant! Although this isn’t just any senior Liberal, it’s John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada!

eBay.ca and the World Wildlife Foundation are auctioning off an “off the record” lunch for you and three friends/advertising colleagues at Biagio, one of the finest Italian restaurants in Toronto. This lunch is not “subsidized” by the taxpayer, therefore the winning bidder is advised to bring the winning bid in a brown envelope wrapped with elastics.

Alfonso Gagliano says “try the pasta!”

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Mr. Kilgour shouldn’t think that he’s among friends in the Liberal Party. Those Grits sure can be mean to their own, or former own, especially when it serves their special interests or they feel slighted.

David Kilgour left the Liberals because of their institutionalized corruption. Today Paul Martin Liberals are doing everything they can think of to entice him back to vote with the government on motion(s) of non-confidence.

However, they weren’t that pleased with him, not all that long ago. One of my Conservative insiders tells me that senior Liberal staffers were burning Kilgour and tarnishing his reputation.

While Kilgour deserves much credit for getting Prime Ditherer Paul Martin to pay attention to the crisis in Sudan, senior Liberals previously ratted out Kilgour to the Conservative Party concerning what they called Kilgour’s ‘other adventures in Africa’. In fact, senior Liberals claim that the PMO was called in to clean up the mess.

This information came to the Conservatives before the Liberals desperately needed Kilgour’s vote to support the survival of their corrupt government and before he quit the party. Some Liberals ratted on Kilgour when he was one of their own! Now they depend on the Honourable member’s vote. Mr. Kilgour should know that his “friends” in the Liberal party attempted to destroy his reputation.

Politics does make for strange bed fellows!

UPDATE: Just saw David Kilgour on CBC’s The Hour. Kilgour always appears to me as a nice guy and a genuine MP who believes in his issues. This makes me less likely to believe the Liberal slander.