Emerson won't run again: sources

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OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson, who defected to the Harper Conservatives 2½ years ago, will retire from politics instead of running again in the looming federal election, sources say.

Mr. Emerson's departure will be a blow for the party.

A former CEO of lumber giant Canfor Corp., he provided the Conservatives with the big-city cabinet talent they sorely lacked when he defected to them shortly after winning his seat as a Liberal in the 2006 election.

His crossing the floor gave the Tories their only seat in downtown Vancouver. It also sent a signal, Conservatives hoped, that urban voters could embrace a party that had failed to make electoral inroads into the urban heart of Canada's biggest cities: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
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[HeresyLives]

1. He'd cross the floor again

if the Liberals won.

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2. I've heard spec he'll be parachuted into Kamloops

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3. I'd like to parachute him into Flin Flon in January. nt

[HEyHEY]

4. I prefer thowing him out of a plane without a cute

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5. He just an unscrupulous chicken shit

I hope he winds up being Dick Cheney's bitch when he's rotting in Hell.