Is this man the worst MP (and minister) in Canada?
This month, two Conservative candidates in the 2015 federal election, Jerry Bance and Tim Dutaud, were dismissed for inappropriate past behavior— Bance for peeing in the mug of a client of his repair business, and Dutaud for prank calls involving fake orgasms and imitating a mentally handicapped person. Since records of both candidates' actions were online before the election was called, many have questioned how the Conservative Party vets its people.
MP Julian Fantino, the Associate Minister for National Defence, has so far escaped the same kind of exposure and resulting condemnation. But that may be about to change.
The "worst choice" for the Conservatives
The end of Julian Fantino’s career as minister of Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) began in a stuffy waiting room in the bowels of Parliament Hill’s Centre Block.
It was January 28, 2014, and nine veterans – mostly elderly and wearing their service medals – had trekked to Ottawa from across Canada to meet Fantino, hoping to persuade the minister to change his mind about closing eight VAC district offices.
But Fantino didn’t show up to the meeting. More than an hour after he was supposed to arrive, as the veterans sat waiting to meet the press, Fantino walked in. Attired in a charcoal-grey suit and looking ill-at-ease, things started off calmly enough. But when a Newfoundland veteran, Paul Davis, asked a skeptical question about services, Fantino got shirty with him.
“You know, this finger-pointing stuff doesn’t work really well with me,” he said.
“It don’t work well with us that you didn’t turn up at a meeting you were supposed to turn up to,” snapped a visibly agitated Davis. “Don’t tell us that something came up. You bushwhacked us.”
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/14/news/man-worst-mp-and-minister-canada
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