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I voted Liberal, but I feel like something would to be pretty controversial to not get 1 MP from the bloc or NDP to go along with it. Which is why I’m not crazy about this majority.
One NDP MP did cross the floor, Lori Idlout: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/idlout-crossing-floor-liberals-9.7123443
She did so because her constituents asked her so they could have a voice in the leading party. Otherwise they’d be reduced to silence. And that proved to be a good move considering how things turned out.
“A good move”
Yeah, great move from an indigenous MP siding with the government that not long ago tried to bypass treaty rights for “projects of national interest”.
You’re totally going to get a good voice in with all the Conservatives who crossed the floor, including someone who suggested sending in the military to deal with the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests.
Idlout’s crossing was dumb and outright pathetic. Like congrats on being the token indigenous person for whenever the Liberals run into issues with indigenous people. “Well actually we’re not trampling over indigenous rights, look, we have an indigenous woman here!”.
I am not particularly happy about this, wish the NDP picked up more seats but you can’t have everything you wish for.
Do I think PP will take this in stride and step down? No.
Politically, Poilievre is an enigma. Somehow, in spite of everything, all the blunders, cringeworthy gaffes, miscalculations, party defectors, he was literally chased out of Ottawa. And yet, he’s managed to stay on top of his party rank. How on earth did he overwhelmingly pass leadership review? It’s a mystery to me.
What catastrophe would it take to actually chasten this man, and his party? I shudder to think.
How on earth did he overwhelmingly pass leadership review? It’s a mystery to me.
I have a theory that fits the data surisingly well. Poilievre is recognized throughout the party as one of the few with the oratorical skills to flood the Liberals with their favourite brand of hollow, vaccuous critique in parliament and in the media. Simultaneously, he is one of the rare few who can mask his ghoulishness, unlike almost everyone else who goes mask off if they open their maws.
The last strong leader the conservatives had was Stephen Harper. Harper’s political superpower was that he got the party to shut the fuck up. He was a control freak who made most communications flow from his office only. In the rare and unavoidable instance where anybody did speak publicly the messages were short, carefully pre-scripted pieces design to stay locally relevant and not embarrass with national escalation. Avoiding the stuff that plays fine locally, but turns off the public regionally and nationally.
Everyone in the conservatives wants to express their mask off maga chud rhetoric. Only tiny pp can keep the mask on, barely.
