Jaffer's election-night party Monday at Mike Yasinski's Hudson's Pub on Calgary Trail morphed into the Conservative party's celebration headquarters.
From an eerie quiet earlier in the evening, the party hit a fevered pitch by 11 p.m. and was still going strong when Hicks on Six rolled out the door at 2 a.m. yesterday.
The next generation of political leaders - Jaffer, Rajotte, Lake and Ambrose - cracked an enormous bottle of champagne, saving a few drops for Laurie Hawn who arrived a short time later.
Celebrating with the members of Her Majesty's newest government of Canada were provincial cabinet ministers Lyle Oberg, Gene Zwozdesky; Leduc MLA George Rogers; Conservative campaign director Hal Danchilla and the political "godfather" of many of the younger members of Parliament, retired Conservative MP and MLA Ian McClelland.
He is the only Tory in Alberta who got less than 50% of the popular vote. Told ya. The guy does not have Edmonton Strathcona's support. He was touted as cabinet material at one point when the media speculated on a Harper victory, well not now.
The Calcutta Telegraph of India is speculating on which Indo-Canadians will be in Harpers cabinet and Jaffer ain't one of them.Brown tinge stays same in Canada. Funniest specualtion in this article which fails to name Jaffer at all, is the idea of Nina Grewal being in cabinet. Grewal the quietist backbencher versus Jaffer the laziest.
The excuse for Jaffer not being in cabinet is that Harper has enough high profile potential MP's from Alberta for cabinet. All good old white Albertans.
So if you live in Edmonton Strathcona and are a drinking buddy of Rahims or were thinking after three terms you would finally have a cabinet minister from the riding, well forget it. You get more of the same, the laziest self serving MP in the house.
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