[Maritime Q-Scout]

Personally I'm not a fan of crossing the floor at all (unless it's high school model Parliament where I set a school record for floor crossings, was a memeber of every party and an independant in the matter of an 15 minutes, wooo!)

However, (prepare flames throwers here) I think what Belinda did was a better floor crossing than the rumoured Emerson one.

Reason being, was Belinda actually spent some time as a Tory MP, then "realized" that her views and her party's views conflict. **not saying I agree with what she did, just that it's better than .....

Being elected and crossing the floor before even getting your ass in the your chair. The ultimate slap in the face, politicans are labled as scum, liars, and cheats. Generally speaking I think it's an unfair rep, however it's guys like this that give all political figures a bad reputation.

Unless he mentioned this in his campagin (which I highly doubt) or if he's had a history of being his own man, and not a party man (in Nova Scotia Paul MacEwan held his seat for 20+ years, however his riding was represented by the Liberals, Tories, NDP, and an independant in that time... not 100% sure on the NDP but the other three anyway) then he should be linched the next public outing.

If there ever was a case to be made that citizens should be able to fire their MP, this would be it.