Harper Introduces Newest Members Of Tory Team At Caucus
Posted October 17, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper got a standing ovation from Tory MP’s in a campaign-style caucus meeting Wednesday morning, introducing the newest members of his team to a boisterous crowd.
Harper boasted of his party’s success in September’s Quebec by-elections, introducing former Roberval mayor Denis Lebel, who is now the Conservative MP for Roberval-Lac-St-Jean.
And, to rousing cheers, he brought Alberta’s new senator, Bert Brown, to the podium, nine years after he first won a province-wide election nominating him for the post.
The televised introductions came as Liberal Leader Stephane Dion conferred privately with his caucus over the future of Harper’s government following Tuesday’s throne speech.
With the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP saying they will vote against the Conservative agenda, it was left up to the Liberals to decide whether they can stomach Harper’s blend of law and order, a prolonged Canadian presence in Afghanistan and scrapping of the former Liberal government’s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse-gas emissions.
