phone tapping, lost documents, aids taking the fall and so on and so on....
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OTTAWA -- Reaction to Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt's private comment that the shortage of radioactive isotopes used in cancer tests is a "sexy" issue from which she could benefit politically:
"How could she?"
-- Geraldine Owen, whose daughter-in-law is having breast-cancer treatment.
"I'm trying to be fair, but most people realize the trauma that people go through when they have cancer and are sensitive to it."
-- Cancer survivor Norma Fisher.
"This minister has been working around the clock to make sure we get a greater supply of isotopes and make sure we have alternative options for our health care patients in this country. That is what the minister is doing. That is what this government is doing, not playing cheap politics."
-- Prime Minister Stephen Harper responding to opposition criticism.
"The cheapest politics there is is to call a crisis a career opportunity."
-- Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
"A lot of us in this House are surprised and shocked that there hasn't at least been an apology. Not only is she losing secret documents, but she expected a career bounce as a result of a medical crisis."
-- NDP Leader Jack Layton.
"This minister is incompetent and the prime minister's judgment is in question... Does he agree that the notion of cancer is a sexy issue on which to build your political career?"
-- Liberal MP David McGuinty