“Honourable” is the funniest part of this.
It sounds like he’s going to get parachuted into some safe riding. We might not be free of him yet.
Why? Wil the party did well in the election Pierre most certainly did not. It was a rejection of him personally.
Canadians don’t want MAGA millhouse.
While I agree, it surly is not how the CPC sees it. The CPC had an historic participation and only a circonscription had to vote for Pierre. In a way, he was rejected by his constituents, but not by Canada. If it wasn’t for the NDP partisans that voted liberals, we probably would have a conservative government. So yeah… I’m not hopeful for the future, next elections might be deceiving.
He may as well have kicked a Canadian goose live on camera: that’s the level of repugnance across the board, even with the deep blues playing team sports, he will lose.
No one has use for a guy who will flip a stronghold with reputation alone.
Yes, but don’t call me Shirley. ;)
There’s a lot of Conservative infighting right now. It’s a big tent party and not everyone in it cares about fighting “radical woke liberals”. It’ll be at least a month, if not longer, before an open seat gets a by-election and there’s always the chance people in that riding will have have lost confidence in Poilievre. At the same time, while Poilievre waits for another chance at a seat, the Conservatives will need to name a current MP the leader of the official opposition. Why not just have that person be the new party leader?
The past two Conservative leaders, Scheer and O’Toole, were forcibly ejected from the leadership spot by the party after their loss. The party will be kicking someone out for sure, but it seems like a toss up between a loser (Poilievre) and a winner (MP who won a landslide victory). It’ll be interesting to see who gets the proverbial “axe”.
I really, really hope a return to center of some kind prevails, or at least the party splits in two with a saner half. One of our two major parties basically becoming a US-MAGA fifth column is a really scary prospect.
Perhaps help pass voting reform and then split apart once the system allows that without obliterating the party.
That shouldn’t be allowed and neither should crossing the floor. I voted, we all voted, for whom and what party we wanted, and that’s that.
Crossing the floor should be fine, possibly even encouraged if you no longer agree with your party’s direction. Unless you’re saying that all MPs should just follow the party line and not have any original thoughts of their own.
No, but there should be a by-election so the people who voted for them agree.
People shouldn’t have to agree. They voted for a candidate, not a party.
With the current state of politics, I think crossing the floor is going to be increasingly unlikely until we get electoral reform, but crossing the floor is much more a symbolic act, sending the message that you no longer agree with your previous party’s policies.
If they just stopped voting in line with the party (and got kicked out, and became an independent), would that be fine with you?
I myself voted for a party. I don’t typically vote Liberal but I did under the circumstances.
Most people vote for the party. TBH people who don’t are actually voting for what the candidate wants them to see, in practice.
You may have voted because of a party, but you still voted for a specific representative. If that representative decides to vote differently than the rest of the party, it’s still the same person you voted for.
Yes, but we’re talking about what should be, aren’t we?
Crossing the floor is a pretty rare thing in the first place. At that point, maybe we should just move to a party list system.
Happened a few times under Harper!
Honourably discharged
Isn’t it great ?
It’s marvelous. I hope he’s crabby.
Seems like he’s always crabby, but I’m sure he’s a bit extra sour after the results.
I’m personally excited to see absolutely nothing done in our country for another 4 years :)
