XPost: can.politics, ab.politics, edm.general   
   From: ConsRCons@govt.cda   
      
   On 9/12/2013 7:13 PM, The Doctor wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > =?UTF-8?B?Q29uyYBSQ29uyYA=?=   wrote:   
   >> Calgary Herald - September 12, 2013   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Minister apologizes for f-bomb, but not sentiments   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths’ infamous f-bomb still hangs   
   >> in the air, unexploded. He briefly apologized for bad language on   
   >> Twitter but hasn’t said a word since his outburst last week.   
   >>   
   >> But he finally unloaded Wednesday in an interview from Ottawa, with an   
   >> apology for the word but an even tougher attack on Wildrose Leader   
   >> Danielle Smith for allegedly fuelling anger over the response to   
   >> flooding in High River.   
   >>   
   >> “I know emotions are high and tensions are high and I’m proof positive   
   >> that sometimes they get higher than they should,” Griffiths said.   
   >>   
   >> “That’s where my f-bomb came from. And I apologize for the f-bomb, but   
   >> not for my sentiments.”   
   >>   
   >> Asked last Tuesday about Smith’s forum to air grievances against the   
   >> RCMP, Griffiths startled the province by saying “it’s f---ing   
   >> embarrassing ... I am sick and tired of people like her going around   
   >> trying to blame people when we’re still trying to rebuild the   
   community.”   
   >>   
   >> In the interview Wednesday, Griffiths says High River is a town   
   >> suffering from collective depression, anger and post-traumatic stress.   
   >>   
   >> “And what’s (Smith) doing?” he asks. “She’s having a town hall to   
   make   
   >> sure people stay mad.   
   >>   
   >> “That’s not going to help anybody. It staggers and sickens me.”   
   >>   
   >> Griffiths now says there’s proof the RCMP saved lives by breaking into   
   >> homes.   
   >>   
   >> “We have pictures of people coming out on stretchers, turning blue   
   >> because they were unconscious and they were trapped,” Griffiths says.   
   >>   
   >> “And if it wasn’t for the RCMP kicking in their door, nobody would have   
   >> known and they would have died.”   
   >>   
   >> If somebody had in fact perished that way, Griffiths alleges, “Danielle   
   >> Smith would have been the first person screaming dereliction of duty of   
   >> the RCMP, how dare they just ring the doorbell and knock, and assume   
   >> people are fine.”   
   >>   
   >> Smith has always said many High River residents have legitimate   
   >> grievances (there are nearly 1,900 claims against the RCMP) and she’s   
   >> just representing her constituents, as a good MLA should.   
   >>   
   >> She insists the government is out of touch with the amount of damage and   
   >> the feelings in High River.   
   >>   
   >> But Griffiths also says the RCMP was called in only after firefighters   
   >> and volunteers were threatened by some townspeople who refused to obey   
   >> the evacuation order.   
   >>   
   >> “We had a firefighter who went to a door, rang it, and the guy opened   
   >> the door and shoved him off the steps and said ‘I’m not leaving.’   
   >>   
   >> “There were death threats against people going door to door during the   
   >> search and rescue.   
   >>   
   >> “So the local emergency operations then decided we couldn’t have   
   >> volunteers and firefighters, we had to have the RCMP if there are   
   >> threats ...   
   >>   
   >> “So the RCMP go into it. They ring the doorbell and knock on the door.   
   >> That’s what they’re supposed to do. They try to pick the lock, and if   
   >> they can’t they kick in the door.”   
   >>   
   >> “And then when they go in they find out some of these vacant homes have   
   >> guns lying all over the place, unsecured.   
   >>   
   >> “So now we have 300 to 400 people who refused to evacuate and a door’s   
   >> been kicked open during search and rescue and there are guns lying around.   
   >>   
   >> “We’ve got angry people kicking firefighters off the steps and there’s   
   >> guns ... We’d better secure them.”   
   >>   
   >> Griffiths doesn’t dispute that the RCMP might have made mistakes. “When   
   >> the evaluations are done they may say they went too far and they did   
   >> something wrong.   
   >>   
   >> “But I’m going to wait until the evaluation’s done before I hang some   
   >> RCMP officer who just tried to save people’s lives when there were death   
   >> threats all over the place.   
   >>   
   >> “I got a threat made to me ... I had to make an RCMP report myself.   
   >>   
   >> “I got some criticism for the f-bomb. But I can’t believe people saying   
   >> on Twitter, ‘how would you like it if RCMP hooligans broke into your   
   >> house’?”   
   >>   
   >> As for Smith, the minister levels one final profanity-free blast:   
   >>   
   >> “It sickens me that any politician is trying to capitalize on this and   
   >> make people angry and enraged ...   
   >>   
   >> “That’s why I said it’s embarrassing and used the f-bomb.”   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Why any right wing parties are not option on my voting card.   
      
      
   If you support the likes of the 'BC Liberals' and many of Justin Trudeau   
   's policies - at least the ones he's made public - you do indeed support   
   right wing parties.   
      
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