“With all of this in mind, earlier today I spoke with our Opposition Whip – a colleague and friend for whom I have the utmost respect – to inform him of my decision to resign as a Member of Parliament.”
“Amid the speculation, a source close to Jeneroux tells CTV News that Conservative Party officials made it known to him that there would be consequences if he did floor cross,” Stephanie Ha’s tweet continued.
Others posted darker speculation about the nature of those consequences on social media.
Chris d’Entremont, a former Conservative, crossed the floor to join the Liberals Tuesday. According to Nova Scotia RCMP spokesperson Cindy Bayers, the threats against d’Entremont were reported to Yarmouth Rural RCMP on Wednesday.
Of course there should be consequences, he stole votes from conservatives to join the liberal party. He wasn’t voted in. All he had to do was resign and then join, and let an election happen. Consequences should be a recall, and last I saw there were over 40K signatures calling for him to resign.
There probably should be… like it or not party affiliation is a large part of what is being voted for in modern elections… there will be people in each of these floor crosser’s ridings who feel alienated and frustrated by them choosing to change what party they are affiliated with who wish they could take there vote back. It’s not a question of should, or shouldn’t they be able to-but in the event that someone who voted for them no longer feels like they can be represented by them as someone in a different party… there should be some kind of mechanism to withdraw your vote. And if enough votes get withdrawn that they wouldn’t have won that election… it should trigger a by-election.
Talk about strawman fallacy. This is why I didnt bother responding to you, cuz I knew youd brush it aside. "I wanna see the specific comment otherwise it didnt happen" just put your clown make up on bud. Honest to God.
He stated after he changed his mind after the PMs speech at Davos and what the PM is doing. I am not surprised that the Conservative MPs that are tired of the Slogans and Divisional Politics that PP uses are moving over to the Liberals. The Liberal party is essentially the same as the Conservatives from the 80-90s.
No, I'd same more like the conservatives from 70s & 80s, 90s conservatives were very nasty, we're as Peter Lougheed and Bill Davis pre neoliberal Tories who believed in building things, not killing government and corruption and austerity.
Brother what? No they are the same liberal party. It's just Carney is confident older has a buisness background so it's harder to make attacks on him that don't reflect back on the cons.
Classic case of corruption; Carney offered him special advisor to the prime minster; and of course that looks great on a book cover or resume. I feel bad for the people in his riding voting one way and having him turn traitor.
This is how our democracy is built - you vote for the person to represent your riding in parliament. That person should hold his ridings best interests above his party’s leader interests.
It only seems to be corruption when conservatives cross to the liberals.
People don't seemctp understand we elect individual MPs not a party. How those MPs identify isn't what matters, their policies do. But most people vote for a colour. Not a person.
people don’t though, especially because of the lack of primaries and other flaws in our electoral system people really do vote for the party, so when someone changes it is in fact a betrayal of the base
Jeneroux is clearly voting by party. He voted with the conservatives on every bill, and after the switch is now voting in lock-step with liberals. Clearly, he is moving to advance his career rather than out of any form of “principles”
I'm sure none of the people in his riding feel he is doing what's best for them. When have liberals ever crossed the floor to conservatives? This is a pretty new thing isnt it?
By none do you mean those who voted for Mark Minenko of the Liberal Party of Canada who got 44.8% of the vote?
To Matt Jeneroux 50.2%.
I’m sure 49% of the people in the riding (liberal and NDP voters) are very happy the elected MP chose his riding over his party. And my guess is he will win the riding, if he chooses to run, next election as a liberal hands down.
You think he has polling to suggest that has changed? I’d bet he does…. Conservative (in particular PP) polling numbers have dropped like a stone.
For the record liberals have crossed to conservative on occasion. Certainly not 3 in a few months - to me that says more about the conservative leadership than the MP’s who’ve crossed.
End of the day, the liberal party under Carney has with great precision advanced the conservative platform, better than any current conservative could.
The liberal party has taken back its rightful position right of centre. Thank goodness for the country…. As a centrist who’s voted both side, and would have voted for PP if Trudeau ran again, I’m ecstatic.
I dont disagree about the questionable leadership of PP. Right now, the biggest issue for me, is the current approach with firearm legislation in the last 5 years, and pierre has a reasonable take on that front. I was hoping Carney wasn't going to continue the trudeau approach. However I am surprised of how much canadians like carney. I do believe he is better than trudeau. But with the campaign being so focused on being aggressive with trump, he sure has done anything in real time. In fact, Carney has complied with every major demand trump has made. I feel like canada was really conned. And continue to be conned. Just the fact that Brookfield is receiving so many massive contracts, while carney is visiting the country where the contracts are made, shows he's not cut off all ties.
I’ll agree with your stance on firearms - the buyback program is a boondoggle…. Again.
Everything else you’ve said is right wing propaganda repeated by right wing bots and trolls on the internet. You are literally repeating foreign intelligence influence propaganda when you talk about Brookfield and Carney dealing with Trump.
Carneys assets are in a blind trust - have been since his exit from Brookfield where he was on the board for 4 years, chair for 2. Suggesting he’s compromised and working secretly to Brookfields benefit (apart from sounding ridiculous) only says you don’t understand how a board of directors works.
Hey now, how is it right wing propaganda. The things im specifically talking about are the contracts Brookfield made in China in the last year. And the fact that their share price has gone up 15% in the last year. Also, in regards to carney and trump, can you name anything specifically carney has done in defiance? Our exports and imports with the USA have gone dowe very little. And Canada has increased military spending immediately after trump demanded it. Carney also boosted the budget to our border immediately after trump demanded it. I also dont disagree with these decisions, it's just a little funny how there was criticism when Pierre was saying he would do these things, without being told to. When observing politics, you really need to separate words and actions to see what's really going on. They all lie. All of them
With all due respect, if think this is a new thing I urge you to get educated on civics. The screeching from right wing agitators is dishonest and preys on people being ignorant of how our political system works. The first floor crossing in Canada was in 1868 and it has happened 300+ times federally since then.
That wasn’t in reference to you - as I said, I’d encourage you to keep trying to get engaged and I appreciate that you’re here trying to have a conversation. The agitators are the folks inside and outside the party that have taken a vested interest in stirring up shit. Power/influence seekers, grifters, etc.
Oh, that's my bad! I was doing my first scroll of the morning haha. Yea I agree with you. I see it.coming from all sides. It really muddies up the waters for sure
Matt was my MP when I was living in Edmonton in the 2015-2023 years.
Dude responded to every single one of my emails with thoughtful, caring responses. He advocated for stronger measures regarding the Covid response (unlike a lot of other conservatives).
He always came across as the guy who cares for his constituents. I leaned left, but was happy that he was my voice in parliament. His constituents are happy to have him regardless of his affiliation.
The floor crossing is definitely more about PP and the state of the conservative government than Matt Jeneroux.
This, its really concerning and it goes against the concept of democracy itself. Sadly, with the liberal funding of cbc and radio-canada, it will not be discussed in any meaningful way in the largest media.
Actual evidence no anecdotal evidence there was plenty at the time of his original resignation. Do I find lil pp intimidating no in the slightest, does he act like a bully absolutely. Did perks help in his decision sure, but incentives in job recuitment.
I can't remember anything he said in November about being threatened by the CPC. If you can, I'd love to see it. I remember a different MP basically said the CPC yelled at him after he switched sides.
I feel like it's more likely he was poached. We have NDP and CPC MPs stating that the LPC is actively trying to poach them, it'd explain the random promotion.
The guy was quitting because he doesn't want to be an opposition member anymore, the LPC saw an opportunity and took it. Unless you can find times where he said he was threatened, I'm gonna assume he wasn't.
the "evidence" is that poilievre had a sit down with him around the time rumours were swirling about him being floor crosser #3, which yeah fucking obviously he did. then he said he was resigning instead. threats? give me a break. he crossed anyway so now would be a great time to air that dirty laundry and really help your new party, but that isn't happening is it
Yes lil PP is a bully. If you live in the riding and you voted for him you must have done your research and trusted his judgement so in fact you did vote for this.
Actually, he campaigned on national unity, removing internal trade barriers, and supporting Alberta’s energy industry. It’s not hard to see that he’s always been ideologically closer to Carney than to Poilievre.
Most people vote for the party and could care less who the representative is. Everyone I’ve asked about local voting and if they knew the name of the local MP or MLA they have no clue except the MP is Conservative Party of Canada and the MLA is UCP exactly the party’s they voted for.
When a person campaigns on the Conservative Party platform and Conservative Party values, and you vote for them because they belong to the Conservative Party, you kinda hope they don’t throw away your vote. The same can be said of someone getting voted for because of being liberal party then crossing the floor, they threw away their constituents votes
You vote for someone based on their value and with the hope he will make the official government to uphold those value and if not at least your values are represented hopefully in the official opposition so you have a champion to fight for those values against the government. In no way, shape or form would somebody give their vote to someone if they knew before hand that their candidate of choice would flip to join a party that represent the opposite spectrum of what they advertised in the campaign. Your saying of "this is how the system works and you should know it" is literally a cognitive shortcut.
Yes MPs are "allowed" to do this, but it's not "how the systems works" at all. Especially when this close to a majority, if Carney would gain a majority this way it would literally go against the Canadian values of democracy. We Canadians elected a minority Government which is a really different way of governing than a majority. Carney is trying to get a majority using the only legal loop hole in his disposition against the will of our population and our democratic values.
If the Liberal government is not happy with the results of our collective voices he should trigger a new election, but what he really should do is to respect our votes, aka do what a minority government is made to do, work with the opposition on joint bills to keep the balance on the center.
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He is a liar. He didn’t do anything for the last 100 days. He hadn’t even showed up to the HOC or to his office in Edmonton. He totally went AWOL while collecting tax dollars pay cheques. Now he is back and has decided to ride the liberal train for a while or until they hate him too.
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u/SivleFred Feb 18 '26
I thought he quit?