Editorial: Make Floor Crossers Prove They Retain Voters' Support

Editorial: Make floor crossers prove they retain voters' support

Read: 3 min The Canadian Future Party may come to regret its choice of name. The party was launched in mid 2024, when many Canadians were fed up with then prime minister Justin Trudeau but also uneasy about the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievere.  The Future Party’s founding leader Dominic Cardy told Canadian Affairs at the time that his goal was to offer centrist Canadians a middle ground. “There’s a growing concern amongst Canadians — inclu…

April 15: Canadians never chose a Liberal majority, Ford’s changes to municipal government are bad for local voters, and other letters to the editor

Letters to the editor point out that five individual MPs crossing the floor have now given Canadians a majority government that they didn’t elect, and criticize Premier Doug Ford’s decision to appoint an appointed regional chair.

Maverick MPs: Should floor-crossers be forced to face voters again?

For the last five months, many Canadians have watched with alarm defections by five Members of Parliament, four from the Conservative Party and one from the NDP. These defections – or “floor crossings” – have contributed in no small measure to a Liberal majority government, a mandate that they did not win directly from the voters during the last federal election a year ago. The five recent floor-crossers were Chris d’Entremont (Acadie—Annapolis)…