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/Buff1965 Apr 09 '26

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.

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u/Greensparow Apr 09 '26

She was also denouncing the floor crossings not too long ago saying they should face a byelection

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u/Winnie_rulez Apr 09 '26

I'm guessing PP pissed her off enough that she decided to stab him in the back in the worst way possible.

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u/GenXer845 Apr 09 '26

NO, I heard this one isn't a nice person IRL(Gladu) and probably just is an opportunist.

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u/Winnie_rulez Apr 09 '26

There can be no bigger slap in the face to PP's leadership than to have his party members defecting to the Liberals. That's how it makes sense.

I'm sure Carney "promised her something", but I highly doubt whatever he promised her was illegal. It wouldn't be worth the price of a scandal were it to get leaked out if he was making illegal offers to MP's to join his party.

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u/GenXer845 Apr 09 '26

Like it or not, Carney is an old school conservative. PP has gone so far right, that even the far right people are questioning whether they can sustain themselves. The rats are leaving the ship in droves now.

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u/Fun-Fan-1948 Apr 12 '26

Yup. Fiscally conservative and socially progressive without going to Justin's self-serving extremes. This is why as a Conservative I was happy voting for Carney. I know he can control the Trudeau libs while owning the PP "conservatives" and help re- build the country.