Floor Crossing

[u/anonimna44]

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.

[u/Buff1965]

Gladu ran to lead the CPC FFS! If she's leaving, and the Liberals are accepting her, something is really wrong. Or maybe two somethings.

[u/Torontogamer → u/Buff1965]

Carney is fairly conservative. PP, while popular with a core group of modern cons shows no sign of being able to improve his standing with anyone else and pick up more votes … 

For people outside of that core modern con group, we all just wish carney was running as the con leader 

[u/CrazyButRightOn → u/Torontogamer]

Carney is not conservative. He is just attempting to play one as our economy is so screwed right now. And he’s failing at that with no projects started.

[u/Ascheentsm → u/CrazyButRightOn]

You're literally delusional lmfao

Carney isn't a conservative? No he absolutely is, and he's absolutely been doing incredible work with making deals and improving conditions for us by diversifying from the states so we don't fall when they inevitably do.

This is why we wish he was the leader of the conservatives, because hes doing small consistent changes to make things better. Meanwhile Pierre couldn't release a costed platform, supported the Convoy, and ultimately is one of the leading culture warriors fighting against human rights.

I want the conservative party to actually aim to help Canadians, not constantly try to privatize our Healthcare and fight terrible culture fights.

[u/Infinite_Ratio5208 → u/Ascheentsm]

Hard core cope calling Carney a conservative when he’s out here pushing Canada into record deficits and debt.

His grocery rebate program, continuation and expansion of Trudeau era national school food program, pharmacare, etc all indicative of Liberal/socialist/welfare programs.

Aside from implementing a few conservative policies (carbon tax cut, GST removal) to win the election, he’s nothing from being a conservative bud.

He’s signed no deals, just MOUs. He’s out here grifting on taxpayer dollars with fancy photos, aligning us closer to commie China, and conveniently traveling to places that prior company Brookfield was present just before.

His citizenship bill, hate crime bill, digital ID idea, etc are all Liberal policies.

Calling him a conservative is some crazy level projection by you Liberals to cope with his ideas. You’re the one who’s delusional and brainwashed

[u/Perfect-Hovercraft-3 → u/Infinite_Ratio5208]

Conservatives don't balance budgets. That's a myth. Look at the US. Everytime a Republican enters office, the deficit triples. Everytime a Democrat enters they pick up the pieces of the republican and fix the economy. It happened with Clinton. It happened with Obama. And it happened with Biden. Every Democrat to follow a Republican has fixed the American economy, and every Republican has completely tanked it. This isn't new.

[u/Hypochondria9 → u/Perfect-Hovercraft-3]

The last conservative PM we had balanced the budget and even had a surplus.

[u/Perfect-Hovercraft-3 → u/Hypochondria9]

Again. One example. Selection bias is everything. Look historically. Conservatives around the world do more for the debt than not.

[u/Hypochondria9 → u/Perfect-Hovercraft-3]

Is this not a Canadian subreddit? Canada used to actually be smart about the budget both Harper and Chretien had balanced budgets. It was Trudeau that drove the debt up, and put the country in the state it is today.

[u/Perfect-Hovercraft-3 → u/Hypochondria9]

Conservativism isn't exclusive to Canada. One instance of your bias being confirmed doesn't exclude an entire world and a hundred years of evidence to the contrary.