Grey

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#12^ GREY, Deborah C. (Deb)
MP for Edmonton North Alberta
Telephone: (613) 996-9778
Fax: (613) 996-0785
Email: Grey.D@parl.gc.ca
Website: http://www.deborahgrey.com
Canadian Alliance (2000.03.27-2002.04.09)
Independent (2002.04.10-2002.04.16)

<img src="http://www.freedominion.ca/dorcs/DeborahGrey.jpg">

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[hiti]

Here's a better visual:


Let's not forget the other side of the Ole Grey Mere:

[hiti]

Here she is on her way to Ottawa to sop up more of that pension chop!! Oink, oink!

[TheFiddler]

One down.

[Greg McNeely]

Grey was quoted on the radio today. Did she say that she has a face for radio, or a voice for radio.

Anyways, yes, it's one DoRC gone. And significantly one of the documented premeditated traitors of the party. I'm sure she'll enjoy making oinking sounds, like she had to the Liberals, as she cashes her great pension cheques in a few short years.




Good riddance!

[hiti]

Oh but the Alliance party looks so good with all those smelly DoRCs hanging around it's neck. Shows the voter the "intregity" of the party.

[Jason Kauppinen]

One down.

Actually it's the second DoRC to go down.

Don't forget this news from early march of 2002:

Dauphin-Swan River is now DoRC-free
http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3804

[Ipberg]

Yep, ole Hiti and Inky are in the same party now.

[hiti]

Yep, ole Hiti and Inky are in the same party now.

That really irks you that I and thousands didn't stick around an swallow the kool-aid with you.

[WestViking]

Yep, ole Hiti and Inky are in the same party now.

That really irks you that I and thousands didn't stick around an swallow the kool-aid with you.

"Stick Around"? You abandoned the PCPC for Day and the Alliance in a snit.

[WestViking]

Grey's fundamental decency


The Ottawa Citizen


Friday, March 14, 2003

Deborah Grey was an unknown school teacher when first elected to the House of Commons in 1989. She must have felt isolated: Dominated by the urbane Mulroney Tories, with their Italian suits and shiny shoes, Parliament was the consummate old boys' club. Ms. Grey, meanwhile, was only 35, a woman, an evangelical Christian and the sole representative of the newly created Reform party.

Don Mazankowski, the deputy prime minister at the time, dismissed the newcomer as a one-term wonder. He was wrong. Ms. Grey, now 50, is serving out her fourth term. Yesterday, she announced that she will not seek a fifth. She has no private-sector job lined up, no offers to sit on boards of directors. Her time is simply up, she said: "I did not enter Parliament with the intention of becoming a career politician."

Parliament will be the poorer without her. No matter whether one agreed with her ideas, Ms. Grey was recognized as a person of fundamental decency. And courage. As Reform's only elected member, it fell on her to mount a one-woman challenge to the left-liberal political establishment. It was she who preached the necessity of deficit reduction and balanced budgets. Back then, these were foreign, "neoconservative" policies, and Ms. Grey was attacked as a crazy right-winger. Now those same policies are received wisdom.

Ms. Grey's accessible manner was appealing, which is why her enemies thought her dangerous. A women's group once burned her in effigy. But it's hard to think of a better role model for girls than the assertive and confident Ms. Grey. To be sure, some critics thought her folksiness contrived, and perhaps it was suspicious that a woman raised in Vancouver, with two university degrees, spoke in a rural twang and dropped the 'g' from verbs so that driving became drivin'.

But even if the populist persona seemed forced at times, Ms. Grey always saw herself as ordinary folk. Once in Parliament, she spoke in excruciatingly personal terms about growing up the daughter of an alcoholic. The speech was an expression of support for tougher measures against impaired driving, and Ms. Grey drew praise from all corners of the House.

The Reform party, now the Canadian Alliance, invigorated Canadian politics, shaking up the status quo. It never would have happened had Deb Grey not come to Ottawa 14 years ago.

[Connie Fournier]

Oh, puhleeze!

Yes, Deborah Grey did good things for the Reform Party. And, yes, I used to have the utmost respect for her.

But this woman thought it was within her rights to tear down the work of thousands of dedicated volunteers because she did not like the results of the democratic leadership election.

She no longer has my respect, and I'm glad she is not going to be a CA MP any longer because, in my opinion, she brought dishonour to her position.

[Right]

Oh but the Alliance party looks so good with all those smelly DoRCs hanging around it's neck. Shows the voter the "intregity" of the party.

And how are the PCPC any different?

[MacTher]

Oh, puhleeze!

Yes, Deborah Grey did good things for the Reform Party. And, yes, I used to have the utmost respect for her.

But this woman thought it was within her rights to tear down the work of thousands of dedicated volunteers because she did not like the results of the democratic leadership election.

She no longer has my respect, and I'm glad she is not going to be a CA MP any longer because, in my opinion, she brought dishonour to her position.

I'm with you Connie. I would have been very happy for her to lead the new CA party, if she had run, I respected her so much.
But then she betrayed us, big time, and it still hurts.

I wonder if the real reason she is quitting is because her riding may not renominate her. Or perhaps she knows that some very deep wounds, that she created would be opened up again, should she seek the nomination again.