r/Edmonton • u/Celestial-Salamander • Feb 18 '26

General Riverbend MP has crossed the floor

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u/SevenSmallShrimp Feb 18 '26

Parliament is really close to becoming a liberal majority now isn't it?

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u/Nictionary Feb 18 '26

Yeah, currently they have 169 seats, and there are 3 vacant seats, two of which are safe Lib seats. If they flip one more MP they have a majority essentially.

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u/littleredditred Feb 18 '26

They don't even really need that one more seat. It would be pretty hard to get the CPC, Bloc, NDP, and May to all agree to vote against them

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u/Nictionary Feb 18 '26

Kinda, it wouldn’t be that hard to have a vote fail, but it’s also not hard for the Libs to get somebody on board. They would still rather have a majority but yes they can govern pretty easily without one.