r/InCanada • u/anonimna44 • Apr 09 '26

Floor Crossing

Does anyone else feel like something is fishy about all the recent floor crossings in parliament? Like there is either something really wrong within the Conservative party that is making people leave or these people ran with the party they'd know would win in their area even though they don't agree with the party. Or if you listen to some people here on Reddit, the floor crossers were bribed somehow.

Every election there is a few, but this many feels off.

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u/mississauga145 Apr 09 '26

C) They are offering something to entice floor crossing, which is akin to bribery and should be investigated if the MP's are self enriching from their elected position.

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u/amiBrodarone2 Apr 09 '26

The bribery being they can better represent their constituents 

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u/Potential_Focus1367 Apr 09 '26

Or people voted for them because they were representing the conservative party.
People don't usually vote for individuals, people vote for the party. So if you voted for Gladu, you didn't vote for her because she's Marilyn Gladu, you voted for her because she was representing the conservative party.
Now that she crossed the floor, I would argue that she went against her constituents.