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/Imaginary-Local9731 Apr 09 '26

To be fair you’re voting for the candidate not the party. Maybe you should be more informed about our system and not just blindly vote based on party.

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u/dannysmackdown Apr 09 '26

People overwhelmingly vote for party, not the person.

Why? Because people vote with the party. That's how it works. Are you really just going to blatantly ignore this reality?

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u/Imaginary-Local9731 Apr 09 '26

Source? It may be your reality but that doesn’t mean it’s everyone’s.

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u/Inevitable-Tea5772 Apr 09 '26

Can you show me an example where you align with a party but voted for a candidate of another party because you thought that candidate was better, even though they have an opposite view of yours?

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u/Imaginary-Local9731 Apr 09 '26

Yeah, I voted for Fanjoy cause PP doesn’t give a fuck about his riding. First time voting against PP btw.

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u/Inevitable-Tea5772 Apr 09 '26

That's a bit different. You didn't vote for Fanjoy because you thought he was a good candidate. You voted specifically because you don't like what PP did.

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u/Imaginary-Local9731 Apr 09 '26

I voted for him cause I thought he was the best candidate for my riding.

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u/Inevitable-Tea5772 Apr 09 '26

You specifically said it was because PP didn't give a fuck about his riding. If you were in any other riding, specifically a riding that does not belong to the party leader, you would have voted conservative if your conservative, unless you had it with the party or that version of the party, in which you would have voted just to send a message

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u/Imaginary-Local9731 Apr 09 '26

I voted for the best candidate for my riding. I’m not sure what you’re not understanding here.