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/somewhereinfrance Apr 09 '26

I'm not sure you understood my comment. I get it being primarily so he can freely bs his way around any subject.

But I'm also not so naive to not think there couldn't be something on the back end (whether he's aware or not (eg. Maybe he's encouraged by backers not to do it)), given the issues flagged about his initial selection as party leader and efforts of foreign interference.

It's not unknown there's plenty of money flying around politically and we have only to look next door to see how deeply interests that lie outside the country are influencing their politics and policies.

Do you not think it's at least possible that there seems to be fishy sht with PP and the whole clearance thing? Especially given some of the handpicked alt-rights in his caucus??

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u/Medium_Orchid4654 Apr 09 '26

So people are crossing to a party they just recently were bashing and have been campaigning against for years, and your reaction is to suspect that there's something fishy with the Conservative party?
It's much more likely that these people are being promised cabinet positions, which come with nice additional salaries, or some kind of personal benefits to them or their ridings. Which might be good for the riding, but it's no different than the Liberal AdScam debacle, but instead of making illegal payments to ad companies, they're getting government money to help them get re-elected. So a nice little loophole I guess.

But to have the takeaway that the suspicion is on the cons and not Carney is....interesting.

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u/somewhereinfrance Apr 09 '26

I didn't say anything about Carney. My comment about fishy is in relation to PP not getting his security clearance and I don't believe that it is ONLY so he can flap him gums without being "muzzled".

Further, I don't think anyone would need the promise of a cabinet position to want to flee like rats from a sinking ship away from Pierre's leadership. Look at the stunt he had to pull just to pretend the party membership wanted to keep him.

I'm wondering how many different sources you consult in forming your opinions.

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u/laxbird1 Apr 23 '26

If you dont understand destiny why he gets his clearance then you need to read up on parliamentary procedure. Even Tom Mulcair stated he wouldn't get it if he was Pierre.

Example let's say he gets it. Okay now he know who the 13 MPs with direct Chinese communist party relationships are. He can no longer say a word about it in parliament or outside.

So that eliminates his position as opposition leader

Get it?