Belinda Stronach leaving politics

slowpoke · Apr 11, 2007

Looks like Belinda is going back to daddy. I'd heard that she wasn't a rising star in Dion's Liberals so she's taken the hint and moved on.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/11/stronach-quits.html

Liberal MP Stronach leaving politics to return to Magna
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 | 1:32 PM ET
CBC News
Liberal MP Belinda Stronach said Wednesday that she is quitting politics to return to Magna International and intends to accept a position with the auto parts company immediately.

Stronach, who currently holds the federal seat in the Toronto-area riding of Newmarket-Aurora, said in a release that she would not run for re-election.

Stronach, 40, said she is going to step into the role of executive vice-chair in the company founded by her father, Frank Stronach. She served as Magna's chief executive officer before entering politics several years ago.

"I am always assessing the best role I can play in public life, and after being encouraged by members of the corporate leadership at Magna to return, I have decided that the timing of my return to the business should not be delayed," Stronach said in the release.

Stronach also said she wanted to spend more time with her two children, adding "the heavy demands of public life on family time are real."

red · Apr 11, 2007

maybe she was tired of being treated like shit

slowpoke · Apr 11, 2007

funsmartguy said:
money, money, money......

funny how that works

Dion has promised to have a record number of female candidates in the next election so Belinda's loss will make it that much harder to ahieve that goal. Belinda probably wouldn't have gotten re-elected anyway....

jbwent63 · Apr 11, 2007

It's not about money, its about power. She thought she could have some with the Tories by winning the leadership of an opposition party. She didn't win, so she crossed the floor to be a Minister of the Crown in the Lieberal Government.

Good plan, until they lost......

Being a backbencher isn't what she wants, or why she entered politics in the first place.

She'll have more power at Magna/Chrysler after she helps Daddy buy it from Dr. Z.

JB

jimmyt · Apr 11, 2007

Maybe now she can settle down with Tie Domi and have some little morons with him.....

LancsLad · Apr 11, 2007

jimmyt said:
Maybe now she can settle down with Tie Domi and have some little morons with him.....

Possibly, but Domi was a failure at getting the puck between the uprights.

Wow, first post back from self imposed hiatus and I get to slag (not shag) Belinda and that stump that she's porking. Ah, fels good.

danmand · Apr 11, 2007

LancsLad said:
Possibly, but Domi was a failure at getting the puck between the uprights.

Wow, first post back from self imposed hiatus and I get to slag (not shag) Belinda and that stump that she's porking. Ah, fels good.

Welcome back, you have been missed.

Shades · Apr 11, 2007

danmand said:
Welcome back, you have been missed.

Was he away?

LancsLad · Apr 11, 2007

Shades said:
Was he away?

If you must know I was at a three week Tantric Sex training camp with Goobers Mom.

Shades · Apr 11, 2007

Did you pass the final exam or are you going to have to go back to summer school?

LancsLad · Apr 11, 2007

Shades said:
Did you pass the final exam or are you going to have to go back to summer school?

Did well on the Oral exams but not so well on the being relaxed and at one with the universe horsesh*t.

Tower · Apr 11, 2007

Stronach just wants to become president of Chrysler, opportunity for sure.

She's doing Canada a great service by getting her lefty self out of politics.

Cinema Face · Apr 11, 2007

Basically, Belinda is nothing more than a spoiled little rich brat that is used to having everything her way. When she doesn’t get her way, she bolts.

Hmmm… come to think of it, she’s just like my ex.

lol

She came into politics and expected everyone to just kiss her ass. She expected to get the express elevator right to the top. She didn’t expect to have to pay her dues like every other politician has to do.

She’ll pretend to run Magna for a while until she gets pissed off and then she’ll fuck off on them too. That’s just the way she is.

mattd40 · Apr 11, 2007

I wonder if now would be a good time to buy stock in Magna

Aardvark154 · Apr 11, 2007

It counts for something, although quite what I'm unsure, that she gets to be The Hon. and have the postnominal letters P.C. for life.

Peter MacKay is well rid of her!

Pargolfer · Apr 11, 2007

As one of her constituents...all I can say is..

good riddance....I also did not vote for her in the last election...PG

K Douglas · Apr 12, 2007

She smells a Conservative majority and a loss of her seat in the next election which may come later this year. That's the main reason for her departure. I get the impression that she has little stability and makes poor decisions in life. Typical of incompetent upper management.

Argocock · Apr 12, 2007

Magna is thinking of buying Chrysler, so daddy's little girl would rather be CEO of Chrysler now that she can't be prime minister of Canada...

red · Apr 12, 2007

I guess the posters in this thread think she shouldn't inherit the money? it should be taken and distributed to the workers? how very marxist

toughb · Apr 12, 2007

Funny I never read inherit...

red said:
I guess the posters in this thread think she shouldn't inherit the money? it should be taken and distributed to the workers? how very marxist

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Cousin Frank and his daughter have been pulling millions a year out of Magna. If it went down today they wouldn't even feel it.

By your thinking I guess Ford is communist for giving out bonuses to try and boost moral of their employees.

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