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Topic: Michael Savage's parliamentary record
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Briguy
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posted 20 June 2008 11:12 AM
For the second session of the 39th Parliament, working backwards from June 19th:June 19
On moving from a discussion about Omar Khadr to other business: Abstained/Absent Mr. Savage was not mentioned in the Hansard June 18
Second reading of Bill C-513 (an amendment to the National Defence Act requiring Commons consent before sending troops on an offensive foreign mission): Nay (voted with the Cons) Second reading of Bill C-505 (an amendment to the Canadian Multiculturalism Act to exempt Quebec): Nay (voted with the Cons) Mr. Savage rose on a single point of order, asking that Bill S-204 (which he sponsored) be voted on later that day. The request was refused, as it did not received unanimity from the House. June 17
Third reading of Bill C-29 (to close a loan loophole with regard to campaign contributions/limits): Nay (only Liberals voted Nay) He spoke briefly to ask the House to support (in no concrete manner) Winstone Zulu, an HIV and TB health advocate from Zambia, and to ask generally that "Canada do more to stop TB and support heroes like Winstone Zulu". June 16 No vote tallied; no mention of Mr. Savage in the Hansard June 13 No vote tallied; no mention of Mr. Savage in the Hansard June 12 Motion 465 (Airline Passenger Bill of Rights): Voted Yea (unanimous vote) Motions 1+2 on Bill C-207, an amendment to the Income Tax Act giving a credit to new graduates in designated regions: Voted Yea (split vote with all parties A motion to concur in the sixth report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development: voted Nay (split vote amongst parties). Made a speech in which he shot down Bill C-513. Made a short speech in which he compared Harper to Nixon for no other reason than to needle the opposition? He then opened the door for the Conservatives to remind parliament of the Sponsorship Scandal.
Wow. I'll have to continue this later. There is not a quick way to sift through the Hansard.
From: No one is arguing that we should run the space program based on Physics 101. | Registered: Nov 2001
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largeheartedboy
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posted 20 June 2008 07:07 PM
Funny Savage anecdote.I was at an NDP meeting in Ottawa, and Thomas Mulcair was the guest speaker. After a great speech, a student activist got up to ask him about post-secondary education during the Q & A session. As he finished his question, he mentioned meeting with Scott Brison and Michael Savage. Mulcair said with a puzzled look, "Michael Savage?" The activist responded, "you know the MP, I think he's the Liberal post-secondary education critic". Mulcair: "Honestly, I don't even know the man". I think this tells us something about Savage as a parliamentarian.
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V. Jara
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posted 23 June 2008 01:43 AM
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Originally posted by largeheartedboy:
Why does Savage manage to hang on to his seat then? If I'm not mistaken, does the Nova Scotia NDP not hold all the provincial ridings in his riding?
Coat-tails. The NDP also has yet to find a "king-killer" candidate.
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KenS
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posted 23 June 2008 03:15 AM
You posted the candidate webpage for Halifax West.Mike Savage is the Dartmouth MP, and it is correct that the NDP holds all the provincial seats- by huge margins. How did that happen? Two things. The NSNDP isn't always that well organized. Unfortunately we didn't do a great job at the same time the incumbent Wendy Lill retired and Paul Martin was effective at pulling NDP/Lib swing votes in 2004. Now that he is in Mike Savage will be hard to unseat. Part of that is the normal incumbent thing. A big part is the well deserved good reputation of the Savage name in Dartmouth. And Mike is smart- he appears with and liases with the NDP MLAs as much as he possibly can. Helps that he has long standing links to some of them- but he would do it anyway.
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KenS
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posted 23 June 2008 06:37 AM
I didn't want to say that. For one thing, the NDP candidate is a friend.But it will take a general wave where the NDP is generally really thrashing the Liberals in Nova Scotia. South Shore, Gerald Keddy MP, is the most likely pick-up for the NDP in the next election. And despite Halifax West not being the degree of NDP turf Dartmouth is, and Geoff Regan being a well established incumbent, even HW might a more likely gain fot the NDP than Dartmouth. Mike Savage can run personally as 'good as the NDP'. The only way of breaking that is if people vote entirely on the Liberal brand. The Cons are so far behind in Dartmouth anyway, and Harpers personal unpopularity is Savage's bulwark against Liberal votes drifting that way.
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liberally
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posted 02 July 2008 05:03 AM
briguy, i will assume you support the ndp, just a guess, and you will no doubt assume correctly that i am a Savage supporter. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, let me just suggest that by any standard, savage is a progressive and hardworkingn MP, and ya, it would be easy to pick through anyone's record and contextualize, fair enough...now, as for Muclair, he is a new MP so it is surprising that he woudnt know another MP yet, and what did you expect him to say, that Savage is a great guy! 
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