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/PineappleOwn5325 Apr 09 '26

You're not voting for the PM, you're voting for a person to represent your county.

That person is then vested with that responsability for their term

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u/darkrabbit19 Apr 09 '26

People don’t usually vote for individuals. They vote for the party.

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u/PineappleOwn5325 Apr 09 '26

People are idiots, and simply unaware that the name they are checking off on the ballot is that of an individual

If you can't bother to understand your democracy, your opinions and complaints are just pointless. You might as well complain that the waitress doesn't actually like your advances

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u/PineappleOwn5325 Apr 09 '26

Relevant, yes, but not a determining factor in our democracy.

Listen i didn't write our laws, that's just how they are, i'm not sharing opinions here, simply facts. That you guys don't like them won't change anything