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UPDATED - Liveblog: Liberal Maternal Health Motion DEFEATED 138-144

by Kady O'Malley Posted: March 23, 2010 3:00 PM Last Updated: March 24, 2010 1:36 PM
UPDATE: And that's it, ladies and gentleman: The Liberal caucus's much-vaunted wedge motion managed to wedge, well, the Liberal caucus as three backbench MPs -- John McKay, Paul Szabo, and Dan McTeague -- voted against the party, and the motion. Afterwards, a bunch of Liberals accidentally voted in favour of the budget. All and all, a banner day for Team Ignatieff, I've got to say. 

Abstained: Albina Guarnieri, Gurbax Malhi 

Curiously absent from the Chamber, despite having been there just a few moments earlier: Derek Lee

Other Liberal absences, some of whom, at least, were simply not in Ottawa and would almost certainly have supported the motion had they been around, from a list provided by the ever helpful PMO: Anita Neville, Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Kania, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Alan Tonks, Marlene Jennings, Joe Volpe, Lawrence MacAuley, Stephane Dion, Mario Silva (paired with B. Calkins), Jim Karygiannis


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Alrighty, since there's not much happening on the committee front this afternoon, I thought I'd catch the last few hours of debate and eventual vote on the Liberals' not-explicitly-about-abortion motion on maternal and infant health.

Check back at 3:30ish for coverage -- likely not in quite as minute minute-by-minute detail as committee, if only because it's harder to get a sense of the dynamics from the gallery, but I'll try to hit the highlights, at least.

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