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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (4952)	5/3/2005 7:44:10 PM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (1) of 37569

I've just read on the news screen in my office elevator that four Conservatives have been approached by the Liberals to bribe them with cushy jobs or Senate seats to resign now from the House of Commons. One of them was Inky Mark and he has gone public. From the Globe and Mail Conservative MP Inky Mark says the Liberal party is trying to woo him to their party by offering him an ambassadorship or Senate position. He's one of four MPs that deputy Tory leader Peter MacKay says have been approached by the Liberals in the past few days. Mr. Mark told globeandmail.com in an interview Tuesday that he was approached by an unnamed cabinet minister who offered him a position in a phone call last Friday. He said the caller asked him what he was looking for in politics. "I wasn't sure what he was talking about," Mr. Mark said in an interview from Ottawa. Then the caller, who he wouldn't name because he said it was a private discussion, "suggested maybe I should consider being an ambassador." The caller told Mr. Mark he should think seriously about it and call back, despite the fact that Mr. Mark repeatedly declined the offer, saying he was not interested. The 57-year-old Manitoban, who said he never imagined he'd be in politics this long--he has been an MP since 1997--said he told the caller his next move was likely to "go home and retire." The Liberals also implied that a Senate position could come his way, Mr. Mark said. If the Liberals were to bring a few Conservatives to their side, or taking a few of their MPs by appointing them to ambassadorships, it would help their cause. They will need at least the support of the NDP, all their party members and the three independent MPs to tie a vote on a no-confidence motion in the House of Commons. That would give them 153 votes. They would need at least 154 to overturn the motion, which could be cast by the Speaker of the House. The Bloc Québécois and the Conservatives together have 153 votes. theglobeandmail.com

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