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AGAR: Floor crossers are all in it for themselves

Constituents lose when the MPs they voted for suddenly switch sides

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The Liberals have accepted people of low character onto their team, and it is hard to believe the floor crossers didn’t do it for welcome baskets. 

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Carney will preside over a team that is not truly Liberal, but has shown that personal interest is their main concern. 

Let’s consider the personalities involved. 

Chris d’Entremont the first to jump ship

Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont wanted to be speaker, because it comes with a $100,000 pay bump and fancy residential upgrades. 

Poilievre put his team behind d’Entremont, only to find that d’Entremont was doing no work on his own; he just wanted the job. 

When he lost the election for the position, he tried again, but Poilievre wasn’t going to go through that mess again, so d’Entremont ran to the other team. 

Not a team player – I hope Carney knows that. 

Ontario and Alberta MPs defections

Michael Ma, an Ontario MP, criticized the Liberals for spending Canada into a financial crisis, but defected the day after he attended the Conservative caucus Christmas party and accepted an office Christmas gift from a colleague 

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Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux said he would resign and, in a Nov. 6 statement, stated he was not being coerced but wanted to spend more time with his family. 

Having spent enough time with his family, apparently, he ran to the Liberals. 

Doly Begum announced her resignation from the Ontario NDP and the Ontario legislature in order to contest the 2026 Scarborough Southwest federal byelection as the Liberal Party candidate 

Begum recently said, “The politics of Liberals aren’t a lesser evil. They are the surest path to greater evil.’ 

She has also called Israel evil and accuses them of genocide, ignoring terrorist evil and accusing Canada – the Liberals – of being complicit in supposed “war crimes” 

Regardless, she has joined the stormtroopers of the evil she proclaimed on the dark side for whatever she has been promised by Carney, the Darth Vader of her new empire. 

She presents as a woman of no character beyond what she thinks is good for Doly Begum. 

Sarnia’s Marilyn Gladu was a frequent critic of what she called the “disastrous policies of the Liberals,” as she told the Commons on Feb. 3. She accused the cabinet of “overreach and tyranny” with measures like the 2022 imposition of the Emergencies Act on Freedom Convoy protesters, an action ruled unlawful by the Federal Court of Appeal on Jan. 16. 

She previously served as Ontario co-chair of Poilievre’s 2022 leadership campaign. 

Then she joined the party of disastrous policies. 

Polling indicates voters pick candidates based on party lines

Some arguments made by floor crossers show that they have sipped their own Kool-Aid and think they got elected because people love them. 

Many people may love them, but the fact is that the people voted for the party, not them, specifically. They abandoned the trust of those voters. 

Research shows that only 4% of voters choose based on the candidate. The rest vote for the party. 

Data from the Angus Reid Institute finds that only one in four (26%) Canadians say if their MP crossed the floor, they should be allowed to serve out their term under their new party colours. 

The good news for Pierre Poilievre is that a majority government can do what it wants, so going forward, whatever happens is to the credit or blame of the Carney Liberals. 

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