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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Before he left politics, Ed Broadbent wrote several proposals to increase accountability to constituents and improve the ethics on the hill. One of them was to stop this party hopping by giving those who no longer wish to sit in their current party a choice: Sit as an independant or call an immediate bi-election.
We should not be ****ed off that Stronach, Khan, Emmerson played by the rules of the game that were given to them. We should be ****ed off that the rules allow this gamesmanship. Of course neither of the two large parties in Canada had any interest in Broadbents accountability suggestions. They were ignored under a Liberal minority AND a Conservative minority.
Again, another reason not to vote for either the Liberals or Conservatives.
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The NDP can afford to be all high and might about this. When is the last time someone crossed the floor to their (little) section of the Commons.
Floor-crossing is part of the tradition of the House. It should be kept around.