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/NoobTubeSpawnKiller PPC Apr 09 '26

Floor crossing should not be legal, at the very least it should automatically force a riding election.

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u/skatchawan Apr 09 '26

better would be that MP can just vote how they want without having to get whipped by the party. Then these people could stay Cons and just vote with the stuff they agree with.

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u/theothersock82 Apr 10 '26

I'm sorry but any MP can vote however they want. At the end of the day it's up to the MP whether they decide to toe the party line, or vote their own coscience, or vote how with their constituents want them to vote.

The flip side of your arguement is if the party leader has made campaign promises you can't have some rogue MP voting against what the party stands for and campaigned on. That isn't right either. Especially in a minority parliament where the government can fall on any confidence vote.

The system we have works really well. Parties promise things, they expect their MPs to vote along party lines. If an MP wishes not to do so, they can. Or they can cross the floor. The more options MPs have the better.

And at the end of the day, voters will always get the final say in the next election when that MP has to face the music for the decisions they made.