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  babble: MP Garth Turner Ejected from Conservative Caucus
Garth is a strong believer in environmental protection, and serves as a national director of the Vancouver-based Sierra Legal Defence Fund, which fights to uphold environmental legislation.
Turner was fearless, unapologetic and looked like he was enjoying himself (as you might expect from someone with enough money not to care about his own personal job security).
Garth Turner would be lionized for doing something like this, and it is clear he wants hero-worship...
www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=009197   (6432 words)

  
  Garth Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turner was born in Woodstock, Ontario, and educated at the University of Toronto Schools, the University of Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario.
Progressive Conservative MP Turner was elected as the Progressive Conservative MP for Halton-Peel in the 1988 election, being made chair of the consumer and corporate affairs committee where he championed the cause of the middle class.
Turner was one of the most vocal Conservative MP's against the floor-crossing of David Emerson to the Cabinet of Stephen Harper.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garth_Turner   (601 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Tory MP Garth Turner challenged for riding
Garth Turner, the outspoken Conservative MP for Halton, is facing a mobilization of some members of the Christian community who are determined to keep him from running in the next election.
Turner, who favours the status quo on the controversial issue of gay marriage -- though his party's election policy is to take the issue to another vote -- has been embroiled in a war of words with some members of the nation's Christian community.
Turner wrote that his team received word that his opponents had organized a campaign, rented a hall, brought in outside organizers, mailed out newsletters promoting "anti-Garth campaign events" and started soliciting support by phone all in a couple of days.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060816/turner_tory_060816/20060816?hub=Canada   (706 words)

  
 35030 - Halton   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Garth has been known to be a tad arrogant in his ways, and despite being in a very very tight race he began almost immediately to announce his plan for a free concert (read victory party) on election night.
Garth Turner knows of what he speaks, doesn't come across as some of the fringe-right members of the tories (tho he may be out there on a few issues) and has a solid profile.
Garth Turner has a good chance at cracking the 40% mark, which in most ridings would be enough to win, but with the NDP being virtually non-existent here, the problem of vote splitting on the left won't be an issue here.
www.electionprediction.org /2005_fed/riding/35030-halton.htm   (1969 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Tory dissident MP Turner gets a nice office
Turner also said on his website that his 'career options within the Conservative caucus are seriously limited,' but that reality is unlikely to stop him from speaking out in the future.
Shortly thereafter, Turner wrote on his website that he was expecting to be given an office in "a renovated washroom somewhere in a forgotten corner of a vermin-infested dank basement" because of the fuss he caused.
Turner, who received a warning from the PM, said his party's response to his disapproving remarks were clear.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060218/GARTH_turner_060218/20060218?hub=Canada&s_name=   (417 words)

  
 Canadianna's Place: St. Garth--Patron Saint of the Petulant & Self-Righteous
Turner's opinion of his party and its leader is low, and he presents himself as the lone champion of goodness and truth -- then he invokes Trudeau as an exclamation point.
Turner was likely asked to be a team-player, but Garth's vanity was more compelling than giving his leader the benefit of the doubt and showing respect for his caucus.
Garth can dress up in coveralls and cowboy boots with leather jacket close by and tell everyone how this is one issue in a moment in time and how he just wants to get on with representing his constituents.
canadianna.blogspot.com /2006/02/st-garth-patron-saint-of-petulant-self.html   (3290 words)

  
 CTV.ca | MP's career 'limited' for criticising turncoat
Garth Turner, Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Halton, speaks with Canada AM on Friday from CTV's Ottawa bureau.
Conservative Member of Parliament Garth Turner says he believes his career options within the party are "seriously limited" after he criticized Minister of International Trade David Emerson for defecting to the Conservatives from the Liberals for a cabinet post.
MP Garth Turner said he doesn't know if there's any basis to speculation Emerson was an important addition to the Harper government because he may have been close to a softwood deal.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060210/emerson_turner_060210/20060210?hub=TopStories   (1029 words)

  
 Conservative MP facing possible challenge from anti-gay marriage candidate
Turner's opponents were to hold a meeting Tuesday night to determine if they could run someone against him in an upcoming nomination meeting for the riding of Halton.
Turner accuses anti-same-sex marriage advocates in particular of taking advantage of the slow summer months to try and stack the nomination meeting scheduled for Sept.11.
Turner has criticized anti-gay marriage advocates as "single-issue monochromatic militants." He has also used such words and phrases as "Taliban" and "flowers of evil" to warn against what he calls the influence of faith-based politics.
www.cbc.ca /cp/national/060815/n0815154.html   (572 words)

  
 globeandmail.com: Garth Turner on his expulsion from the Tory caucus
Turner, who represents the Ontario riding of Halton, has railed against the Tory brass on issues ranging from same-sex marriage, to the budget, to the Tory's child-care plan, and the recruitment of Liberal MP David Emerson to the Conservative cabinet.
Turner is as known for his strong views on fiscal management, debt reduction and the encouragement of small business and investment in Canada, as much as he is for his strong views on the environment.
Garth Turner: Defecting to the Liberals would clearly be a big step for a guy with blue blood in his veins, but the practical answer is I'd need to see who the new leader is and the direction of the "reincarnated" Libs.
www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20061018.wturnprom1018/BNStory   (1016 words)

  
 Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turner is a common English surname meaning "one who works with a lathe".
A turner is also a kitchen utensil closely related to a spatula.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (1955–), British businessman and academic
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turner   (494 words)

  
 Meet Our MPs
Garth Turner is known and trusted by millions of Canadians as an author, broadcaster, columnist, speaker, successful entrepreneur, and opinion leader.
Garth Turner is a member of Canada's Privy Council; was educated at University of Toronto Schools, University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario; and has held positions with the Globe and Mail, Sun Media, Maclean's, CTV and other major media corporations.
Garth is a strong believer in environmental protection, and serves as a national director of the Vancouver-based Sierra Legal Defence Fund, which fights to uphold environmental legislation.
www.conservative.ca /?section_id=1051&linkTo=true&districtId=1505&language_id=0   (434 words)

  
 CIVITATENSIS » Blog Archive » Garth Turner: Long-Term Plan
Turner has for long had leadership ambitions that were frustrated by Brian Mulroney –who never quite gave him the time of day.
Turner’s hopes for propulsion were later dashed with the Campbell debacle.
Turner will never become party leader, but be he’s as good as gone, unless the Tories buy him off right now with a promise.
www.civitatensis.ca /archives/2006/02/11/1090   (1332 words)

  
 The world according to Garth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Garth Turner has held numerous titles in his 56 years, including those of 'crusading newspaper editor,' 'iconoclastic journalist' and 'personal finance guru.' These days he's sitting in the House of Commons as a Conservative MP.
Turner publicly criticized Prime Minister Stephen Harper for appointing a Liberal floor-crosser and an unelected Senator to his cabinet.
Turner was swept up in the hippie lifestyle and left-wing politics of the era.
www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/news/observer/story.html?id=60ce0f7a-6322-41ed-b891-d331c26373ad   (571 words)

  
 Hon. Garth Turner, P.C., M.P.
Garth Turner, P.C., M.P. »; Download Garth Turner's biographical summary [Acrobat PDF format]
Garth Turner is the Member of Parliament for Halton, Ontario.
In this Parliament Garth is known for his proactive outreach to Canadians and his belief in the future of digital democracy.
www.garth.ca /garth   (504 words)

  
 ThePolitic.com » Garth Turner Redux   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Conservative hypocrisy at its worse… At least Garth Turner is standing up for the very principles he was running on last month.
The tragic part of the Garth Turner story is that he actually has a fairly solid record of achievement himself, if not quite as stellar as David Emerson, and could have been a capable cabinet minister.
Garth Turner, King of the John, singin’ “rubber ducky, you’re the one!”
www.thepolitic.com /archives/2006/02/10/garth-turner-redux   (754 words)

  
 Babbling Brooks: Keeping it real
Garth is the new rat pack and he aims 360 degrees.
Garth has demonstrated that he has no respect for democracy: the Party Leadership, democratically selected, made a decision that was in their power to make, and his first thought as a Member of that governing party is to undermine it publicly?
Garth acknowledges publicly that he was told how and when to raise such a discussion, and then he persists in dragging the discussion through the media.
babblingbrooks.blogspot.com /2006/02/keeping-it-real.html   (1703 words)

  
 Garth Turner.. Homeowner's Guide reviewed - Fiscal Agents Money Management Newsletter - Canadian
The main purpose of the book is to show new homebuyers how to purchase the right kind of real estate, pay the mortgage down quickly and then use the equity as security for a tax deductible investment loan to finance future retirement needs.
Turner contends that the two story, multi-bedroom luxury homes that have been built extensively in the 1980's and at present will become white elephants as the baby boom population ages.
Turner, in his opening caution to readers, describes the content of the book as "aggressive and extreme" and encourages readers to put it down if they cannot bear the thought of placing their home on the line to invest in something that might fall in value.
www.fiscalagents.com /newsletter/4garth.shtml   (900 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Strategy : The Homeowner's Guide To Wealth Creation: Books: G Turner   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Turner says the Canada Pension Plan is teetering on the brink of insolvency, and will collapse by the year 2010.
Turner's strategy is that baby boomers have no choice but to borrow against their home equity (which is earning them nothing), and buy stocks and mutual funds which will provide annual returns of 12%-15%.
Garth Turner served as Minister of National Revenue in the short-lived Kim Campbell government of 1993, a year in which Canada suffered its worst ever fiscal deficit of $42 billion.
www.amazon.ca /Strategy-Homeowners-Guide-Wealth-Creation/dp/1550139142   (552 words)

  
 Andrew Spicer's Weblog - Garth Turner Stands Up and Pays a Price
Turner, a Mulroney-era MP and Campbell cabinet minister who was elected for a new round in Ottawa on January 23, was one of two MPs who got media attention yesterday for criticizing Stephen Harper's acceptance of a floor-crosser into cabinet.
Behind closed doors, Turner was called onto the carpet by Conservative Party officials yesterday -- all the way up to the Prime Minister himself -- and stood his ground on this issue.
Turner writes with passion and at length about his commitment to what he believes is right.
www.andrewspicer.com /article711.html   (468 words)

  
 Free Dominion :: View topic - Garth Turner
Turner is an asset to nobody, only himself in his deluded, egotistical mind.
IMO, Garth Turner is the Carolyn Parrish of the Conservative Party of Canada.
I've had no use for Garth Turner, ever since he parlayed his 'anti-tax crusader' stint as finanical editor for the Toronto Sun, into a job as the head tax collector(Minister of National Revenue) for Lying Brian and the biggest tax grab in Canadian history.
www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=61208   (1138 words)

  
 The guy behind the petition to oust Garth Turner at Bene Diction Blogs On
Turner blogged about his TV time with Dr. Charles McVety - to the point that late last week a petition showed up online.
Turner posted I Need Your Help and asked his readers to go over and leave their two cents because only 73 people had signed it.
Also comments were made by supporters of Garth Turner in a hope to sabotage the petition.
www.benedictionblogson.com /?p=2523   (1154 words)

  
 Canada Family Action Coalition - CFAC
Garth Turner, who attacked with bigoted comment, CFAC and it’s President, seems to think certain citizens should not be involved in democracy.
After a spirited televised debate with me on Friday, May 26th, Garth Turner lost it as he ranted and raved on his website www.garth.ca.
Turner made the argument that busloads of ethnic and religious people take over nomination meetings and elect candidates that do not reflect society.
www.familyaction.org /Articles/issues/politics-law/government/renegade-MP.htm   (773 words)

  
 Learning not to fall for Canadian Religious Right tactics at Bene Diction Blogs On
MP (Halton) Garth Turner made a fundamental mistake when he attempted to argue and reason with Charles McVety on a recent TV appearance.
Turner was not surprised to  find himself targeted in Lifesite  News, (US-Canada religious news site) by emailers, while McVety had his group email every federal conservative MP as well as the PM.
Turner was the only Conservative MP to stand by Saskatchewan Christian fundamentalist MP Maurice Vellacott recently when Vellacott made some more of his famous inflammatory, inappropriate public remarks.
www.benedictionblogson.com /?p=2507   (1143 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Tory MP Turner brings Parliament into digital age
Aside from the webcasts, Turner's website boasts a regularly written blog and audio blogs, and the odd interactive feature for residents of his riding -- Halton, just west of Toronto.
Turner takes viewers behind the scenes, like the extravagant washroom connected to his cabinet minister's office.
In early February, Turner went public with accounts of being sternly dressed down by the prime minister for speaking out on David Emerson's defection from the Liberals.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060623/mptv_turner_060623/20060623?hub=Canada   (508 words)

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