EDITORIAL: Disloyal Conservatives should leave – now
· Toronto Sun
There’s a political cancer in the Conservative Party of Canada that needs to be cut out.
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It’s Conservative MPs considering defecting to the Liberals and anonymously blabbing about it, in addition to the four who have already defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals.
These anonymous, floor crossers in waiting, should out themselves now and leave.
Get it over with and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Stop undermining your (former) party with the death of a thousand cuts.
The Conservative floor crossers who have already defected to the Liberals – Marilyn Gladu , Chris d’Entremont , Michael Ma and Matt Jeneroux – are about to make Carney the only Canadian prime minister in history to use the backroom negotiations of floor-crossing to achieve a majority government.
Talk about a tainted political legacy for these four former Conservatives – or the “fickle four” as we call them.
Carney will get his majority government on Monday night when the Liberals are widely expected to win at least two and possibly three new seats in byelections.
As for the Conservative floor crossers – both those who have already gone and those still to bolt – they’re weakening the Conservative Party in its legitimate role as the official opposition.
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Most Canadians certainly don’t approve of what they’re doing.
A recent Ipsos/Global News poll found almost 70% of Canadians surveyed said crossing the floor should trigger an immediate byelection, while 62% said candidates should not be allowed to switch parties after an election.
Finally, if the Conservative caucus doesn’t believe it can win the next election under Pierre Poilievre, then it should use the Reform Act, sponsored and championed by Conservative MP Michael Chong, to remove him as leader through a caucus vote and begin the search for a new one.
Just remember that in doing so, the Conservative caucus would be opposing the views of 84.7% of the party’s grassroots, who endorsed Poilievre’s leadership at the recent Conservative convention in January.
Indeed, what the ongoing circus in Conservative ranks actually exposes is an enormous rift within the party that it needs to heal before it becomes permanent.
The alternative is perpetual opposition to the Liberals who have now win four national elections in a row from 2015 to 2025.