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February 13th, 2015

Overheard this week - Feb 13

“Over my dead body” - and 5 other quotes of the week on Eve Adams

“Justin has said he wanted to be the face of someone who did politics differently, and I’m just not seeing it.”

— Former Liberal MP, Michelle Simson, Ottawa Citizen, February 12 2015

“ ‘The larger population just got another message saying the Liberals are no different than the Conservatives,’ said one Liberal MP”

— Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa Citizen, February 12 2015

The Harper government’s controversial anti-terror legislation and Eve Adams’ defection to the Liberals — have people questioning Justin Trudeau’s judgment … again.****’**** ”

— Geoffrey Hall, iPolitics, February 11 2015

“But it was not Ms. Adams who was called upon to deliver the day’s most crawlingly demeaning performance. That honour was reserved for Justin Trudeau. Ms. Adams, after all, was desperate. Mr. Trudeau had a choice. “That he chose to receive her, not with a shrug of ‘hey, a seat’s a seat,’ but in the same spirit of feigned high-mindedness, proves beyond a doubt his fitness for the rigours of high office.”

— Andrew Coyne, National Post, February 8 2015

“Over my dead body.”

— Liberal MPP Mike Colle on the prospect of Adams as the federal Liberal candidate in his riding, The Canadian Press, February 10 2015

****“I do think yesterday was a pretty good day for the New Democratic Party because if you hope for a better politics, if you hope for a politics in which they're not all the same and they're not all the same low morals, if you're hoping for a politics in which it's impossible to imagine lifelong political opponents sitting and pretending to agree on stuff, then your only large alternative - I suppose you could vote Green or Christian Heritage or I don¹t know what, but I mean the only major party that wasn¹t wallowing in the crud yesterday was the New Democratic Party.”****

— Paul Wells, The Current, February 12 2015