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Originally posted by oilers_fan@May 17 2005, 11:41 PM
Getting back to the topic at hand if anyone wants to, how would you feel if your MP decided to switched parties? I would be pretty damn p*ssed off. Does one consult with the electorate and the constituents that voted you in to see if their opinions have changed? So much for a democracy.
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I'd feel fine if I were in any Conservative riding and my MP crossed.
Unlike the traditional Liberal / PC / NDP parties of the past 50-100 years...no one really knew what this new conservative party would stand for. That made it a hard election for them. Sure they had a platform, but how would things REALLY work.
Well, Harper has since proven that he is not moderate and has no time for any social issues other than his own. There looked for a while that maybe there was a chance that the moderates would slowly gain some influence...but the opposite has happened and I wouldn't blame my MP for switching to a party more in-line with my social values.
I'm more in-line with a right-wing fiscal policy, but the Liberals are running fiscally conservative enough for me to sleep at night. Unlike discriminating, regionalism and fear-mongering which would keep me up.