If Garth thinks he will be better off with the liberals he is in for a rude awakening. Dion is fighting for his life and he already has Holland so I don't think he needs a second spoiler dragging him down to defeat. Garth is not a team player and it was a big blow to his ego when Harper told him to get in line with the party or suffer the consequences.
For Garth, it's always about Garth
Lorne Gunter, National Post
Published: Wednesday, February 07, 2007
There's no mystery about why Garth Turner, the ousted Tory MP, has joined the Liberals. He wants to remain an MP after the next election, pure and simple. And the Liberals offer him his best chance--his only chance--of being re-elected.
Mr. Turner will no doubt explain away his decision to join Stephane Dion's caucus as a tough choice, made after the most profound consideration of all the options, and only after wide consultation with his constituents. But that's because Mr. Turner -- a shameless self-promoter and limelight hog, who nevertheless fancies himself a humble servant of the common man -- casts all his decisions as agonizing moral quandaries.
"I was unsure whether to have the white or orange cheddar on my ham sandwich. However, after carefully contemplating all the options (havarti, Swiss, edam), and speaking with the working people of my riding, I made the choice to have Brick."
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