Sarnia and Lambton are very conservative. I wonder if some Oil & Gas announcement will come out of this deal?
Sarnia is a gas station and giant retirement home pretending to be a city. I wish I could leave.
Looking at her Wikipedia page of career accomplishments I can’t really tell what prompted her to cross over. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Just goes to show how the Liberals are the new Conservatives and that Bernier may as well be in charge of Conservatives at this point.
These floor crossings are happening so often that they barely register as news. It’s gonna be a big deal if/when the Liberals finally cross into majority territory, but until then, it seems like a slow, constant drip.
Let’s see what happens on Monday.
The majority is basically achieved assuming the seats that are up this month go as forecast. It will be interesting to see what happens after that. I wonder if we see more happen because Conservative MPs want to be in government and crossing is their only hope, or if we see fewer as a result of less being offered to entice floor crossers.
I suspect the Conservatives are moving over because
- Carney’s Liberal Party is very compatible with them and their constituents. He’s removed the few environmental protections Trudeau added, and can’t be painted with the woke brush. He’s quietly propping up Alberta and the fossil fuel industry.
- the last election was close and they still lost - they assume there will be enough swing voters in their ridings that they could win the next election
- as a majority becomes more likely, they get to be part of government - and have 3 years for voters to forget they crossed the floor,
- enticements, no matter how small.
Gotta wonder why so many are crossing over. Do they just want to be on the winning side, or do they hate Pierre Poilievre?
Carney’s Liberals have policy positions very similar to the Conservatives. He isn’t performatively woke, like Trudeau. He’s happily scrapped the carbon tax, and he’s stopped pushing for polluters to pay. He’s even making noises about supporting Alberta’s extraction industries.
I suspect all but the most rabid Conservatives would be happy if Poilievre was doing exactly what Carney is up to.
