MPs O'Brien and Desjarlais.London, ON -- Pro-life, pro-family MP Pat O'Brien, who stood up to Prime Minister Paul Martin's bulldozing of same-sex "marriage" through Parliament, has announced he will be leaving politics. O'Brien has served as an MP for 12 years and represents the southwestern Ontario Southwestern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. It extends north to south from the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron to the Lake Erie shoreline, and east to south-west roughly from Kitchener to Windsor. riding of London--Fanshawe as an independent. He left the Liberal party last June over the same-sex "marriage" issue. In a statement, O'Brien said there was every indication he would win his seat again in an upcoming election, but he has decided the time is right to leave politics. He pledged he would continue to be involved in national debates on important issues. Comment: It is unlikely he will succeed in his plans. It would be better for him to run as an independent, win his seat, and from there contribute to a new orientation in politics, together with other independents and other unhappy Liberals, Conservatives and NDPers. The NDP NDP New Democratic Party (Canada) NDP National Development Plan (Republic of Ireland) NDP National Development Plan NDP National Democratic Party (Barbados) MP for Churchill, Manitoba, Bev Desjarlais Bev Desjarlais (born August 19, 1955) is a Canadian politician. She represented Churchill in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2006, initially as a New Democrat and later as an Independent after losing her party nomination in late 2005. , is doing just that. She says there is no doubt her stand against same-sex "marriage" has cost her the party's nomination for the next election. Desjarlais refused to buckle under Verb 1. buckle under - consent reluctantly knuckle under, succumb, give in, yield consent, go for, accept - give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" to the party's ideological tyranny. She says she plans to run as an independent in the election and may begin sitting as an independent even sooner (Toronto Star The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, though its print edition is distributed almost entirely within Ontario. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. , Oct. 18, 2005). NDP leader Jack Layton John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC, MP, Ph.D (born July 18, 1950) is a social democratic Canadian politician and since 2003 has been leader of Canada's New Democratic Party. He is a former city councillor and deputy mayor of Toronto, Ontario. , who would countenance no deviation from his party's pro-same-sex "marriage" doctrine, supported 24-year-old Niki Ashton, a recent university graduate. Later, Layton claimed Desjarlais' failed nomination bid had everything to do with the wishes of local party members, not anything he did (LifeSite News, Oct. 20, 2005). |
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