Bundesminister sagt, er bekomme „viele Anfragen“ zu Abgeordneten, die das Wort ergreifen

I think it’s very likely that we’ll get more than one extra floor crossing at this point. It sounds like there’s a lot of internal drama within the CPC going off the leaks and we even have examples of it happening more publicly during Poilievre’s earliest phases of leading the CPC with the Alain Reyes situation. While in the past, the PC wing of the party was willing to put up with the Reform wing as long as the party’s leaders placated to them in some way, Poilievre seems to have dropped this pretense and made the moderates within the party feel way less welcome. (on top of being dismissive of criticism according to his advisors)

On top of this, Carney being a blue (Chretien/Martin style) Liberal is leading many moderates within the CPC to feel like they’re values are more compatible with the current Liberal leadership than it is with the CPC since it filters out the toxicity, demagoguery & more partisan climate & social policy stances in the CPC that the moderates are less comfortable with etc.