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   Oops, Harper . . .  you lose another one.   
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   The Chronicle Herald OTTAWA BUREAU - Published November 18, 2014   
      
      
   Bill Casey wants to run for the Liberals   
      
     Bill Casey wants to run for the Liberals in his old riding in the next   
   federal election.   
      
   Casey declared he will be seeking the nomination late Tuesday afternoon.   
      
   “This is not a thunderbolt,” he said in a telephone interview. “It is   
   something   
   that has been going on for a while.”   
      
   If he wins the nomination, the former Conservative and Independent MP will run   
   against Scott Armstrong, the Conservative incumbent in   
   Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley in the 2015 federal election.   
      
   Casey said when he was expelled from the Conservative party caucus, he was sent   
   to sit on the opposite side of the chamber.   
      
   “The man next to me was Justin Trudeau,” Casey said.   
      
   The two men got to know each other and have been co-operating ever since.   
      
   “I’ve asked him to help on fundraisers, and I’ve talked to him on a   
   whole lot   
   of issues.”   
      
   Casey, a cancer survivor, had been awaiting confirmation from doctors that he   
   has a clean bill of health. He got that clearance late Monday.   
      
   Casey represented the riding for a decade and a half before being kicked out of   
   the Conservative caucus in 2007 when he voted against the budget. Casey argued   
   the budget undermined the Atlantic Accord for offshore royalties.   
      
   The Liberals and Casey began discussing him returning to politics under Justin   
   Trudeau’s banner about a month ago.   
      
   Casey’s return sets up the top fight of the 2015 election in Nova Scotia.   
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   CBC News Posted: Nov 19, 2014   
      
   Maria Mourani, ex-Bloc MP, signs NDP membership card   
   Montreal MP has sat as Independent since 2013 split with sovereigntist parties   
   over Quebec secular charter   
      
   Former Bloc Québécois-turned-Independent MP Maria Mourani signed a NDP   
   membership card this morning and now says she wants to run for the New   
   Democrats in the next election.   
      
   However, she will not sit with the NDP caucus in the meantime.   
      
   NDP Leader Tom Mulcair reminded reporters that the NDP has a policy on   
   floor-crossing that states that any MP who changes parties must first run in a   
   byelection.   
   [- - - ]   
   Met with Liberals   
      
   Mourani said she spoke with Dan Gagnier, a high-ranking Liberal Party official,   
   about crossing the floor to sit with them, but that ultimately she decided   
   against it.   
      
   Mourani said the party first approached her soon after she had left the Bloc,   
   but she wasn't yet sure whether she was still a sovereigntist and hadn't yet   
   found her "political voice."   
   Bloc Leader Mourani 20110921   
      
   CBC News has confirmed that former Bloc Québécois MP-turned-Independent Maria   
   Mourani, who has renounced the sovereignty movement, is joining the NDP. (Sean   
   Kilpatrick/CP)   
      
   She says she met with Gagnier this year, but wasn't comfortable with the   
   Liberals.   
      
   "I don't share the same values, I don't share the policies, I don't want to say   
   that, but I have to. I felt like there is no leader in this party. So for me, a   
   party, we need policies, we need values and we need a leader. There is a leader   
   but he's not a leader who leads," Mourani said, adding that she was told there   
   was no need for her to meet with Trudeau.   
   [- - - ]   
   Mourani told Radio-Canada that the controversial secular charter was a   
   "political calculation" on the part of then Premier Pauline Marois. She said   
   that independence could not be achieved without including everyone, and that it   
   would be "impossible" without Montreal.   
      
   Last December, she told Radio-Canada that after much reflection, she came to   
   the conclusion that the federal system is better placed to protect the rights   
   of Quebecers.   
      
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