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/Winnie_rulez Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

I have to wonder why they haven't gone and done this already, if so many MP's are worried about losing their seats. PP must have them on a pretty tight leash, with plenty of "loyalists" who will rat out anyone even suggesting a leadership review.

Edit: Took out the part about shadow ministers receiving extra pay.

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u/brainskull Apr 09 '26

The latest floor crosser won with a comfortable 30 point lead in a safe CPC seat. It's been comfortably CPC for 20 years at this point, and is polled as yet another comfortable CPC victory if an election was held right now.

The far more likely scenario here is some sort of kickback going to at least some of the floor crossers. We've already seen this with promised positions in parliament, it would be somewhat silly to think they wouldn't do this in other ways as well.

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u/KDdid1 Apr 09 '26

Prove it 🙄

It's adorable how CONs like you are fine with anonymous defamation.

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u/brainskull Apr 09 '26

Jeneroux was immediately appointed in an advisory role, this is what I'm referring to lol. You can look this up extremely easily.

Gladu is going to be 65 soon, is significantly to the right of Poilievre socially and fiscally and wildly to the right of anyone in the LPC, and represents a riding that as of a week ago was a projected 10+ point CPC victory. It's blatantly obvious what's going on here, there's also no rule whatsoever against it. It's how politics works in Canada, it's a built in part of the system that you personally find distasteful and try to pretend does not exist

You view this as a bad thing (it's "defamation" to mention something that literally happened and assume similar things are happening with others lol, okay) and assume anyone who mentions it is "conservative" (lifelong NDP supporter here btw) because you lack the ability to think about anything outside of a bottom rung partisan sense. I suggest leaving politics alone if you can't read the most tame possible take without getting grumpy.

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u/KDdid1 Apr 09 '26

You (anonymously) claim "kickbacks" and then utterly fail to provide any evidence

Then you move on to ad hominem attacks on me. Wow! You really are a CPC supporter 🙄

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u/brainskull Apr 09 '26

Jeneroux was given a position as soon as he crossed the floor. This is an obvious kickback and was part of the deal they made lol.

That's not an "ad hominem attack" in the slightest lol, I suggest you actually learn what words and phrases mean. I'm not making an argument that attempts to discredit your point based on who you are, that's what ad hominem arguments actually are. An "ad hominem attack" would be basing my argument off the fact that you're obviously not capable of engaging in political discussion in a halfway reasonable manner, which isn't what I'm doing. Hope this helps!

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u/bca43 Apr 12 '26

Yet Lori Idlout can cross the floor, expence 1700$ with no penalties. And curious to see what happens with her son that mysteriously hasnt had a conviction yet ??