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People aren't paying as much attention at what's going on. The shit's gonna start hitting them eventually though. Mostly through stagnant wages during continuing price hikes. Not to mention the NDP vote that lent itself to him to keep PP out. We are unlikely to repeat that the way things are going. It's why it's important to build up the NDP in some populist shape so the incoming disgruntled vote doesn't all go to PP. We need working class reps in parliament‚ not whatever the neoliberal fuck the NDP was over the last couple of decades.

I agree with PP on one thing though. Crossing the floor should absolutely trigger a by-election.

Then maybe he should have voted for a bill to do just that when he had the opportunity. That bill didn't pass in part because of Pierre's principled stance.

I'm not saying you're wrong to feel that way, but you are certainly wrong to believe that Pierre actually agrees with that when it doesn't help his position.

Crossing the floor should absolutely trigger a by-election

Parties do not get elected. When a human being gets elected to the office, they have sovereignty over that office. If they want to associate with one, two, a dozen parties, one one day and another the next, that's irrelevant to their holding office.

Parties do not have moral agency. Individual human beings do. Human beings have to be accountable, not mindless systems. Whips already have too much power. When members of government decide to defy their party rather than handing over the power of their office to an un-elected, unaccountable entity, it's usually a very good thing for governance; and when it's not, it's usually endurable.

The NDP floor crosser did so at the request of their constituents. They wanted their MP to be in the leading party to have more influence for their small region.