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<\/a>OTTAWA \u2014 A visibly riled Stephen Harper backtracked on the promise to resign graciously if he lost in last week’s election, telling CTV that he will \u201cgo out kicking and screaming\u201d if anyone tries to take his title away.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill I resort to getting physical? If I have to \u2014 yes,\u201d Harper snapped in response to a Canada AM reporter. Harper lost the elections to the Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberals on October 20.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remind you that I am the Prime Minister of Canada today and I will be the Prime Minister of Canada on October 20th\u2026and October 21st\u2026and October 22nd\u2026etcetera, etcetera, etcetra. No matter the outcome of election.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II herself can strip me of my title.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoesn\u2019t anybody read my omnibus bills?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harper\u2019s about-face comes after repeated statements that he would \u201cbe a gentleman\u201d and clean out his office immediately if either Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberals or Thomas Mulcair\u2019s NDP win more seats than the Conservatives. Harper now reneges on those promises and pointed out that he said he would give up his office but never said he would give up the title of Prime Minister<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cProtocol says that the incumbent Prime Minister is first in line to form a new government,\u201d said a spokesperson for the Queen\u2019s viceregal representative, Governor General of Canada David Johnston, following Harper\u2019s outburst.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that discretion is left entirely up to the Governor General of Canada himself and the Queen does not interfere in the affairs of government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd, quite frankly, Her Majesty finds Mr. Harper a bit of a blowhard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OTTAWA \u2014 A visibly riled Stephen Harper backtracked on the promise to resign graciously if he lost in last week’s election, telling CTV that he will \u201cgo out kicking and screaming\u201d if anyone tries to take his title away. \u201cWill I resort to getting physical? If I have to \u2014 yes,\u201d Harper snapped in response […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[203],"adace-sponsor":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Harper-Queen-Sized.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}