{"id":76491,"date":"2016-05-29T03:21:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=76491"},"modified":"2025-01-09T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:56:25","slug":"rae-finds-trudeaus-praise-stephen-harper-hard-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/29\/rae-finds-trudeaus-praise-stephen-harper-hard-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Rae finds Trudeau\u2019s praise for Stephen Harper hard to swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I apologise for that thoughtless gesture during PM&#39;s tribute to Mr Harper &#8211; a joke in poor taste that I regret very much. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/notmeatmybest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#notmeatmybest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Rae (@BobRae48) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobRae48\/status\/736744327762841600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered rare praise Saturday for Conservative predecessor Stephen Harper but at least one Liberal elder statesman found it a bit hard to swallow.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Rae was caught on video sticking two fingers in his mouth, pretending to gag.<\/p>\n<p>The former interim Liberal leader later refused to comment on his gesture, which was caught on video by a reporter for The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>However later he posted an apology on Twitter calling it \u201ca joke in poor taste that I regret very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video, posted on Twitter, quickly made the rounds at the Liberal national convention, provoking both hilarity and consternation.<\/p>\n<p>Rae\u2019s gag reflex was stimulated during a speech by Trudeau to the convention, the first such gathering since the Liberals defeated Harper\u2019s Conservatives in last fall\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a few pokes at the Tories, who were simultaneously holding their own convention in Vancouver, Trudeau turned serious.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zofran online <a href=\"https:\/\/fasteruc.com\/travel-vaccines\/html\/zofran.html\">https:\/\/fasteruc.com\/travel-vaccines\/html\/zofran.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to remember that even though they may be our opponents, they\u2019re not our enemies. They\u2019re our neighbours and our friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I want to take a moment. You see, there are only a handful of people alive who know what it\u2019s like to do this job&#8230; And I can tell you, even if you weren\u2019t a fan of his politics, there can be no doubting Stephen Harper\u2019s commitment to our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau asked Liberals to join him in thanking Harper, who has let it be known he will retire from politics over the summer, for \u201chis many years of public service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau, the eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, said he\u2019s among the few who know first hand that it\u2019s not easy to be part of a prime minister\u2019s family. So he also thanked Harper\u2019s wife, Laureen, and his children, Ben and Rachel, for \u201cstanding with him through thick and thin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau was not all sweetness and light when it came to the Conservatives, however.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the Tories had been debating at their convention whether to delete the party&#8217;s policy on marriage being the union between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy rybelsus online <a href=\"https:\/\/fasteruc.com\/travel-vaccines\/html\/rybelsus.html\">https:\/\/fasteruc.com\/travel-vaccines\/html\/rybelsus.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong other things, they\u2019re debating the merits of marriage equality. In 2016. More than a decade after we made same-sex marriage legal in Canada,\u201d Trudeau said to gales of laughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, better late than never, right? Who knows, ten years from now they might finally be willing to admit that climate change is real.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy amoxil online <a href=\"https:\/\/fasteruc.com\/travel-vaccines\/html\/amoxil.html\">https:\/\/fasteruc.com\/travel-vaccines\/html\/amoxil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Or that tax cuts for rich people don\u2019t help the middle class,. Or that government shouldn\u2019t legislate what women are allowed to wear on their heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives voted Saturday to drop the sections of its policy opposing same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered rare praise Saturday for Conservative predecessor Stephen Harper but at least one Liberal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[2715,2657,10899,9745],"class_list":["post-76491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-bob-rae","tag-harper","tag-rae","tag-trudeau","mauthors-joan-bryden","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282003,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76491\/revisions\/282003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}