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David A said:
Oh oh, more problems for PP with his MPs and this time, it is one of our local ones

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So CBC reporter said on The National broadcast that Jeneroux - who is more of a progressive conservative than Poilievre, was going to cross to the Liberals and had a meeting with Carney.

But then the attack came from the conservative caucus and he was 'threatened', according to this reporter. So he basically said I am done with this and decided to just resign altogether.

Another government MP from Edmonton would have been great for city, which could still happen in the byelection.

Poilievre is in trouble.

Edit: in his social media, Jeneroux says there was no coersion.
 
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Well coersion is only one word and has such negative connotations, so perhaps pressured or extreme pressure instead? Can someone be pressured to say they are not being coerced?

Jeneroux seems to also have later clarified his departure will actually be next spring (after PP's leadership review) and not immediately. Perhaps he was "encouraged" to do so.

However, I have a feeling he may be packing up his office way before then. It really still seems like he checked out yesterday.
 
Glenco said:
He did ask that people do not contact his family. Make of that what you will
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Yes, I wonder about that too. Who was contacting his family and what did they say? Many questions arise from this situation and the strange twists and turns.
 
Glenco said:
He did ask that people do not contact his family. Make of that what you will
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I also heard a report that the family purchased a place in BC (the island) and is living there and that's where he will be headed. So not even sure if he's living in Edmonton any more.
 
One of the new stories specifically mentioned his family in BC, which did seem odd given it was well noted in the coverage that he is an Edmonton MP.

It was also mentioned somewhere he planned to quit for a while, so maybe it is partly related to the family move, or maybe they are in a witness relocation program because of threats. Who knows.
 
Whattagame said:
Didn't he just cross the threshold to get his pension?
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He had his pension prior to election. Need 6 years. He had 10.

He ran again probably expecting conservatives would win - they would have if not for Carney. When they didn't win, he probably didn't love idea of spending another 4 years in opposition after already spending 10.
 
Higher Ed Strategy has a nice writeup on the budget and its implications for post-secondary teaching and research, but this bit stuck out to me as having broader relevance:

...the economy the Liberals seem to want to build is a deeply twentieth-century one. The idea that we might build a new service-oriented, science-powered economy, a notion that was at the heart of the late Chretien-Martin period, seems like a very distant memory. Tens of billions being spent to “build” Canada, and precious little of it is aimed at knowledge institutions. It’s deeply disturbing and represents the central problem that the post-secondary community must confront over the years to come.
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TAS said:
"...the city must scratch and claw to get every dollar available. This is the time to get greedy. And who knows, maybe having a prime minister who grew up in Edmonton can help us do that."

edmontonjournal.com

Keith Gerein: As Canada gets set for major investments, it's time for Edmonton to get greedy

The new Canadian federal budget includes lots of money for infrastructure investments. Edmonton should be competing for as much as possible.
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I wouldn't use the word greedy, however perhaps that is just the Postmedia headline writers in Hamilton or wherever yet again not getting any of the nuance of a local article. It is about catching up and taking advantage of the opportunity of finally having someone in power at a higher level who actually has some interest in our city.

The article briefly refers to health infrastructure and I do feel that it may take the Feds doing or saying something to pressure or embarrass our provincial government to finally move ahead with the south Edmonton hospital after almost a decade of nothing.
 
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