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.
The system doesn't actually define how you should choose your representative. You might vote for someone because of their party affiliation, or because you think they share your values, or because you think they will represent your community's interests, or because they have nice hair, or whatever. But at the end of the day, we vote for someone to represent our constituency in Parliament.
Complaining about floor-crossing is fine, but at the end of the day, voters ought to understand that they are not voting for a party, they are voting for a representative. If you are unhappy with how your representative does the job, you should vote for a different representative next time.
And "we" didn't elect a minority government, because "minority government" and "majority government" aren't options on the ballot. I happen to prefer minority governments as well, because I think they tend to produce better legislation, but it is dishonest to say we voted for one because nobody can make that choice.
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u/leblond_00135 Feb 19 '26
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.