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Originally Posted by Traum
Ethically, it is somewhat questionable bcos there is bound to be a certain percentage of voters that voted for the party instead of the MP, so the floor crossing is a betrayal of those voters.
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IMO It's one of those it's not the system's fault the people don't understand the system.
And yeah I understand that party members are whipped to vote along party lines, but there are many cases where an MP has voted against the party and accepted the fate of being cast out.
Bill Casey in 2007 voted against his conservative party's budget. Why? Because he felt there was nothing in the budget to the benefit of his constituents. He got booted, and then won as an independent in 2008. That shows those people in his riding understood the assignment, elect the person who best represents you not the party itself.
Fact of the matter is that blue voters are trying SOOOO hard to frame this as some sort of underhanded thing by the Liberals/Carney instead of focusing inwards and acknowledging that something must be seriously wrong internally in their party for so many members to be leaving and crossing.