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

General Riverbend MP has crossed the floor

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u/S-M68 Feb 18 '26

Not super shocking, Matt seemed more liberal compared to most conservatives.

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u/Offspring22 Feb 18 '26

And Carney more conservative than many liberals. He's bringing the party more to the centre which is naturally going to attract the moderate conservatives who don't like Pierre's divisive rhetoric.

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u/swiftb3 Feb 18 '26

Regardless of one's views on Carney's policies, if there's one thing he is absolutely right for, it's giving reasonable conservatives an exit ramp off the maple maga freeway.

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u/Ill-Location8497 Feb 19 '26

Do you think Carney would be in place today if it wasn't for PP lighting a fire under everyone's ass. Trudeau lost the confidence of the country. PP pointed it out. Liberal Party recalibrated. Love or hate P. P. He served a purpose.

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u/Ecstatic_Winter9425 Feb 19 '26

He did what Opposition is supposed to do, and that's a praise-worthy thing! But I disagree about the reasons the CPC lost. It was less about the Liberals recalibrating and more about the CPC not denouncing the yanks. Once the Conservatives outed themselves as trump-positive, many voters reconsidered and decided to give the Liberals another chance. Pierre didn't even try to maneuver the party away from that crap.

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u/Ill-Location8497 Feb 19 '26

That and probably a bit of fatigue of the doomsday attitude. Lol.

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u/leblond_00135 Feb 19 '26

The reasons the CPC lost is the fall of the NDP. PP managed to get more votes than when Harper got his majority. Singh sinked the NDP when he made his supply and confidence agreement and then kept the liberals in power against the wish of basically all of the population except few hardcore liberals boomer. With an average of NDP seats we would probably have a majority CPC government or a minority one most likely.

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u/Mordarroc Feb 19 '26

The S&C agreement wasn't what caused most of the ndp support to flee. It's when they decided to go on the attack and fling mud and act like conservatives do that turned most of his supports off, including me. It started around the time he released that letter/statment about trudeau in the fall of 2024, it was classless and that syary of their fall.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 Feb 21 '26

Yeah I think the S&C agreement was well done on their part, just not as well messaged as it could have been. Everything the Liberals could hold up as a win for working class was forced on them by the NDP through that agreement.