Filibuster Cartoons
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Garth Turner, former Conservative Member of Parliament, has now decided he will be a Liberal Member of Parliament. Here’s a letter I had printed in the National Post the other day in response:
“By my count, at least four MPs have now switched parties over the course of the last two years. If our elected officials continue to consider the will of their constituents so thoroughly irrelevant when weighed against their own political ambitions then I would suggest it is time for the government to step in and introduce some serious legal or constitutional reforms to either limit, regulate, or outlaw the practice of floor-crossing.
But they won’t do it of course. This cloak-and-dagger intrigue of backstabbing and power-broking is now too firmly entrenched in our nation’s political culture. As long as it remains a weapon in the arsenal of all parties, it’s in no one’s interest to change the status quo.”
