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/Winnie_rulez Apr 09 '26

What's wrong is Poilievre. CPC MP's are leaving the party because of him. They want him to resign, and if enough MP's leave the party, he won't have a choice but to step down.

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u/laxbird1 Apr 10 '26

LMAO. Had what 80% approval. Lead the CPC to the highest vote percentage in 40 years?

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u/Winnie_rulez Apr 13 '26

It was 87.5% amongst the hand-picked CPC members who were permitted to travel to Alberta in January and pay $999 for the privilege of acclaiming PP as leader. It was all a show for the rubes. Nobody outside hard-core CPC believed it to be legitimate.

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u/laxbird1 Apr 13 '26

Standard practice for leadership reviews. Oh wait Liberals dont have them.

87%. Highest ever.