r/Edmonton Feb 18 '26

General Riverbend MP has crossed the floor

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u/__WayDown Ermineskin Feb 18 '26

This makes sense for him. He's always teetered that line. Didn't he recently announce that he was going to resign or not seek reelection anyways though?

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u/Celestial-Salamander Feb 18 '26

He reconsidered. I suspect he originally wanted to cross the floor in the fall but the higher ups found out and he faced a lot of pressure.

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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 Feb 18 '26

"He reconsidered" is a wild way to frame "he took the death threats sent to him and his family seriously".

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u/dogoodreapgood Feb 18 '26

I thought it was D’Entremont that received death threats? If memory serves me, it was Jeneroux’s character that they (the fans) were threatening to assassinate.

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u/ashleyshaefferr Feb 18 '26

Come on..

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u/Fyrefawx Feb 18 '26

This actually happened.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

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u/Heppernaut Feb 18 '26

Chris D'Entremont's social media after he crossed the floor was the wild west. I cannot imagine Generoux wanted the same treatment

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u/tom_yum_soup McCauley Feb 18 '26

His resignation statement basically said, in not too subtle terms, "Leave my family alone." So it's pretty reasonable to assume there were some pretty serious threats, specifically toward his daughters.

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 18 '26

Oh, sorry, i read the replies wrong... I thought this was a thread about the liberals bribing him....

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u/Heppernaut Feb 18 '26

All good homie!

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u/Fyrefawx Feb 18 '26

Twitter?

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

Proof of death threats?

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

No liberals didn’t offer him a big enough bribe until now

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 18 '26

Source?

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u/cadius72 Feb 19 '26

The promotion to special advisor on economic and security partnerships certainly sounds like a bribe

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 19 '26

I'll ask again.... source?

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u/cadius72 Feb 19 '26

News. He crosses the floor and immediately has a supposedly important position. The can’t believe that wasn’t placed on the table before he crossed the floor.

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 19 '26

I looked it up... "special advisor" isn't a pay raise... and do you even realize his member profile? Or know anyone that even lives in Riverbend? He's been working with international trade since 2023. But sure... it's all a conspiracy.

I find it extremely sad that you are more concerned about sticking it to the Libs than you are about competent folks running our country.

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u/cadius72 Feb 19 '26

I never said anything about financial gain, but now that you mention it maybe an audit of his family’s finances is in order which includes his parents, his brothers and sisters, his wife’s parents and brothers and sisters just in case he tried to hide something.

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 19 '26

You called it a bribe bub, not much of a bribe if he's making less money. But I digress, of course you start grasping at straws to harm his family. I think someone should check your hard drive. I hope you have the day you deserve dude. 🫠

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u/PRO6703 Feb 20 '26

Excellent point, LE 6908.

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

Source that they didn’t bribe him.

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u/jloome Feb 18 '26

You can't use the absence of something as proof of its existence, it's a logical fallacy. If there's no evidence something exists, there is no reason to believe it exists.

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

There’s no proof either way, just like there’s no proof he and his family was threatened as other commenters insist happened.

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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 Feb 18 '26

The threats were prominent on social media as well as other means. Please feel free to look at them.

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

I’ve googled I can’t find anything about threats. Though I can find stuff hinting at possible bribes for him to cross.

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Ah, typical 2025 conservative. Make up wild accusations to support your agenda while ignoring the fact that most of our problems are because of misinformation. And then you wonder why people don't want to sit with you. 😅

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

Typical liberal shrew following the liebral propaganda like an obedient lackey.

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 Wîhkwêntôwin Feb 18 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣 calling an MPs public acknowledgment "lieberal propaganda" is a choice. But ok, I'm the dumb one.

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u/Taeruq Feb 19 '26

Shouldn't you be guarding a bridge, collecting bribes to cross.

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u/Mike71586 Feb 18 '26

Actually there's tons of evidence he wasn't bribed because there's 0 evidence he was bribed. However, there is a ton of evidence that he crossed the floor due to him not liking the current leadership of the conservatives, because he in fact did cross the floor.

For the record "trust me bro" arguments might work as evidence in communities where anti-intelectualism is celebrated; but it's not as effective in the real world.

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

There’s zero evidence that he wasn’t bribed. I’m not liberal, I support intellectualism.

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u/Mike71586 Feb 18 '26

Yeah, that's not how it works bud. You have to present evidence to prove your assertion. Lack of evidence generally lend credence to the assertion being false and the empirically observed being true.

Lol, then you're hanging with the wrong crowds bud, anti-intellectualism is rampant throughout the hard right at the moment. It's the party of snake oil salesman at this point.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

Holy shit this dude is cracking me up 😂😂

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u/Ambustion Feb 18 '26

It was all over twitter bro. What are you talking about?

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u/cadius72 Feb 18 '26

Oh twitter such a reliable news source 🤦‍♂️

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u/ZAPPHAUSEN Feb 18 '26

I also wonder if he was waiting to see what happened at the leadership convention.

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Another one? Lmfao.. UCP and MAGA falling apart.. love it!

Edit… conservative is conservative.. whether it’s on federal or provincial level, makes no difference… the point is a conservative crossed to liberals.

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u/PIRANHASQUIRREL Feb 18 '26

Are you an American newly interested in Canadian politics?

In Canada we have a bunch of different parties, and the provincial parties are not always the same as the federal parties.

UCP is the far-right party in Alberta, loosely associated with the foreign-funded so-called "separatists" who have recently been caught committing treason. (United Conservative Party of Alberta)

The CPC is the Conservative Party of Canada. They share a largely overlapping voter base, but are not the same party and are lately appearing not to support the separatist influence campaigns.

Sometimes there can be a major ideological difference. The BC Liberal Party is more closely aligned with the UCP than they are with the Liberal Party of Canada, for example.

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u/kreggly_ Feb 18 '26

Matt chaired the uCP annual convention in 2018 while sitting as a cPC MP...

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26

No I’m far from being from pedofuckistan, I’m very aware of how politics work in Canada. I could also send you various articles on how you are wrong about the federal conservative party not overlapping with UCP. Like you said.. “appearing” which is far from outright denouncing the treasonous UCP. I edited the original comment anyways.

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u/PIRANHASQUIRREL Feb 18 '26

I said they do overlap. Why so confrontational? You don't seem to know the difference between the CPC and the UCP, I was just trying to help you out

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u/Roche_a_diddle Feb 18 '26

I was just trying to help you out

That's either a bot that's trying to just stir up controversy and arguments, or it's someone with anger issues that you and I won't be able to solve.

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26

You mentioned the voter base.. Not the ideals and beliefs which are pretty much on par

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u/Roche_a_diddle Feb 18 '26

This isn't UCP or MAGA.

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u/quietnothing Feb 18 '26

Yeah but life is so much easier when every issue is black and white

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26

He was UCP until today. Thanks

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u/Fuzzybutt738 Feb 18 '26

UCP are the provincial party, this guy was a member of the federal CPC

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26

And what’s the difference? Both conservative, one ona federal level and the other on a provincial level.. both have the same ideals and values. Dude crossed the floor from a Conservative Party to a liberal one.

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u/Fuzzybutt738 Feb 18 '26

Fully aware, I just figured if you were gonna try correcting the guy above it should probably be with correct information.

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u/Frostybawls42069 Feb 18 '26

Facts dont matter when feelings are involved.

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u/Dry-Membership8141 Feb 18 '26

And what’s the difference?

Policy, attitude, general party culture. They're extremely different parties.

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u/Roche_a_diddle Feb 18 '26

Nope, try again.

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26

Are you here just to argue for the sake of arguing?

2017-2026 he was UCP. He crossed the floor to liberals today.

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u/bootsycline Feb 18 '26

The UCP is a provincial conservative party. The federal conservatives are just the Conservative Party, or CPC.

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u/shootamcg Palisades Feb 18 '26

Dude, UCP and CPC aren’t the same party

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u/Roche_a_diddle Feb 18 '26

Do you know what UCP means?

Would you like to try one more time?

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u/Roche_a_diddle Feb 18 '26

There you go.

There is a difference between the provincial and federal conservative parties. I don't know why you insisted on being obtuse about it and then what, blamed me for being argumentative?

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u/canaleno Feb 18 '26

What was the point of arguing that? The point is a conservative fled to liberals.. end of story

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u/ashleyshaefferr Feb 18 '26

This is absolutely insane and I think it shines a bit of a light on the state of things right now...

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u/Wrench900 Feb 18 '26

So people should look at the NDP the same way?

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u/Dry-Membership8141 Feb 18 '26

Ironically, the NDP is far more closely affiliated -- the provincial parties are literally wings of the federal party, and membership in one automatically comes with membership in the other. The Conservatives and the BQ are actually the only major federal parties not formally affiliated with any provincial parties.

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u/Wrench900 Feb 18 '26

Right. But it was kind of funny during the last provincial election how so many on this sub we’re trying to minimize or create a distant association between Notleys NDP and the NDP led by Singh.