{"id":20025,"date":"2022-06-25T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20025"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:06:51","slug":"shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20025","title":{"rendered":"shocked&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source CTV Politics News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BERGEN &#8216;SHOCKED&#8217; BY REMPEL GARNER COMMENTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-4-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-4-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-4--300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-4--768x392.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichelleRempel\/status\/1540009806840434689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent blog post detailing<\/a>&nbsp;why she decided against running for leadership of Alberta&#8217;s United Conservative Party (UCP), Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner wrote about her concerns and observations of both the provincial and federal parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In both parties there have also been squabbles that have erupted in the pages of national media, public meltdowns, nearly missed physical fights, coups, smear jobs, leaked recordings and confidential emails, lack of consensus on critical issues, caucus turfings, people harassed to the point where they resign roles, and hours long meetings where members have been subjected to hours of public castigation,\u201d reads her post.<\/p><cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after this was published, the Toronto Star reported that some of her fellow Conservative MPs have threatened to get her removed from the federal caucus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-michelle-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-michelle-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-michelle-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-michelle-3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the comments from her colleague, Candice Bergen &nbsp;interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Opposition&nbsp;said she was &#8220;absolutely shocked,&#8221; and that while it may be Rempel Garner\u2019s experience, it was &#8220;not an accurate description.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve not experienced that,\u201d Bergen said. &#8220;We have had an amazing last six months. And you know, even when we do disagree\u2026 yeah, there&#8217;s been there&#8217;s been squabbles, but my message to caucus is we can disagree and still be united.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-doubles1pxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-doubles1pxm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-doubles1pxm-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Candice-Michelle-doubles1pxm-768x392.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/court-painter-Candice-Michelle-in-bluejpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/court-painter-Candice-Michelle-in-bluejpg.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/court-painter-Candice-Michelle-in-bluejpg-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/court-painter-Candice-Michelle-in-bluejpg-768x589.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CTV Politics News BERGEN &#8216;SHOCKED&#8217; BY REMPEL GARNER COMMENTS In&nbsp;a recent blog post detailing&nbsp;why she decided against running for leadership of Alberta&#8217;s United Conservative Party (UCP), Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner wrote about her concerns and observations of both the provincial and federal parties. &#8220;In both parties there have also been squabbles that have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=20025\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;shocked&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20033,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}