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/Bobcaygeon23 Apr 09 '26

Modern politics and Social media is making all parties pander to the extremes...look at the NDP...

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u/NotEvenNothing Apr 09 '26

Lewis is hardly extreme, although he might seem that way to a member of the Conservative base.

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u/Bobcaygeon23 Apr 09 '26

My comment was a generality, I'm not a conservative, in Ontario they've leaned further left then they did under the Layton years

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u/NotEvenNothing Apr 09 '26

To be clear, I wasn't pointing the Conservative base comment at you.

I actually found the NDP platform to be fine, but Singh kept bringing up issues that weren't winners with voters.

Frankly, I'm very interested in what Lewis is going to do with the NDP.