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Liberals now calling for Dosanjh and Murphy to step aside

More people are falling in line with my Tuesday suggestion that Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh, and Paul Martin’s Chief of Staff Tim Murphy step down while they are investigated.  But since the recommendations are coming from within the Liberal ranks, I suspect we’ll hear something more about it now.  I also said Gurmant Grewal should by removed from the Conservative caucus. 

Liberal MP wants Dosanjh, Murphy suspended

A senior Liberal MP wants the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Tim Murphy, and Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh suspended from their posts until an investigation takes place into the growing scandal over the secretly taped negotiations between the two men and a Tory MP who was considering crossing the floor.

Sarnia MP Roger Gallaway says the situation is “totally odious” and “it shows the underbelly of politics that I think is quite unacceptable.”

“[Conservative Leader Stephen Harper] will have to deal with [Tory MP Gurmant Grewal, who made the tapes], but we have to deal with our own,” Mr. Gallaway said. “The use of the words ‘Senate’ and ‘foreign posting,’ even if no offer was made, is totally odious. There are several MPs who are remaining silent but who think Murphy and Dosanjh have crossed the threshold of acceptable political discourse.”

Mr. Gallaway was referring to the taped discussions between the three men just before the no-confidence vote on the budget two weeks ago.

“It just makes my skin crawl,” Mr. Gallaway said. He said he is receiving telephone calls from concerned constituents.

He said they are telling him that “this is now not about us or them, it’s about the whole place.” He says the affair could put Parliament “in total disrepute.”

Several other Liberal MPs say off the record that the two senior Liberals should step aside until an investigation takes place.

“What I’ve had people say, too, is that until you clear the air, everybody should step back,” one MP said of what he has been hearing from constituents.

Another senior Liberal MP in effect dared the PM to suspend the two men: “If the Prime Minister feels it is necessary for his Minister of Health and his chief of staff to step aside, then he should do it. If he remains silent about it, it means he really doesn’t have any concerns about it.”

But the MP is not optimistic.

“The bar is so low now. . . . Have you ever seen anything like this?

“Everybody gets away with stuff. It’s just a joke.”

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