Conservative MPs Are Easy to Poach
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The Liberal Party of Canada is now one seat away from a majority. Why? Because another Conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals. That makes two floor crossings in about a month. Now, people are asking why. Is it principal, is it career management, pressure, forward interference? And I m going to be honest, it s probably all of the above. You can debate the motives all day, but the bottom line is leadership. And anyone telling you this is not a leadership crisis is gaslighting you.
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The Liberal Party of Canada is now one seat away from a majority. Why? Because another
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Conservative MP just crossed the floor to the Liberals, Michael Ma. That makes two floor
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crossings in about a month. Now people are asking why. Is it principal? Is it career management?
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Is it pressure? Is it forward interference? And I'm going to be honest, it's probably all of the
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above. You know, you can debate the motives all day, but the bottom line is leadership. And anyone
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telling you this is not a poly of leadership crisis is gaslighting you because this is
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the literal definition of a leadership crisis. A leader who cannot keep his caucus together
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is failing at the most basic part of the job. Now, everybody is talking about the optics of
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Ma, and it's very interesting. I'll give it that. Ma attended a conservative Christmas party the
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night before crossing the floor, and then the day he crossed the floor, he went to the liberal
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Christmas party. And he had the audacity to take a photo with Polyev during the conservative
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Christmas party. And in that photo, Polyev is smiling. And that smile represents one thing,
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weakness. Parliament Hill is gossip central. Everyone talks, rumors spread instantly.
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So the idea that Polyev was somehow betrayed is not reassuring. It actually makes things worse.
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There was a well-known story about FDR. A congressman once rushed into the Oval Office
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to warn him about a conspiracy forming against a bill.
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And then the man realized something very unsettling.
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not only in his own caucus, but across the hill. And here's the part people need to start asking,
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why is Ma even an MP to begin with? Who put him there? There was no local movement pushing him
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into office. There was no community momentum carrying him across the finish line. So what
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happened? The Conservative Party increasingly relies on centralized Ottawa appointments instead
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of local grassroots nominations. Do you really think these spineless jellyfishes at HQ select
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people based on their conviction, based on how conservative they are? No. The whole point of
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selecting them is so that they can select the people who are the easiest to control.
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They hate grassroots candidates because you can't control them. You can't manage them.
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They care about their communities. They understand specific local issues, crime,
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immigration, taxation, local policy impacts. And that's a huge problem for the party. Pierre hates
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that because these local concerns conflict with the national centralized message in the platform
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and the policies the party solution is simple but sloppy you appoint people who are easy to manage
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Now, in theory, it sounds efficient, but in practice, it produces floor crossers.
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