Dog bites man, MP crosses the floor...
This time it's Garth Turner, who unlike David Emerson, had enough ethics to sit as an independent for a while after he was expelled from Stephen Harper's Conservative caucus. Turner thought briefly about giving the Green Party their first MP, but in the end opted not to upset the perpetual rule of the business class two-party oligarchy.
Ever notice how no one from the NDP or the Bloc crosses the floor? Ujjal Dosanjh and Bob Rae don't count - they were both Liberals in denial when their provincial NDP governments crashed and burned, long before they became MPs. Lucien Bouchard would count, but he jumped to the Bloc Quebecois on principle, unlike the hordes of career opportunists routinely circulating from one engine of Canada's corporate political machine to the other.
It's like Tommy Douglas said, black cats and white cats...
This time it's Garth Turner, who unlike David Emerson, had enough ethics to sit as an independent for a while after he was expelled from Stephen Harper's Conservative caucus. Turner thought briefly about giving the Green Party their first MP, but in the end opted not to upset the perpetual rule of the business class two-party oligarchy.
Ever notice how no one from the NDP or the Bloc crosses the floor? Ujjal Dosanjh and Bob Rae don't count - they were both Liberals in denial when their provincial NDP governments crashed and burned, long before they became MPs. Lucien Bouchard would count, but he jumped to the Bloc Quebecois on principle, unlike the hordes of career opportunists routinely circulating from one engine of Canada's corporate political machine to the other.
It's like Tommy Douglas said, black cats and white cats...
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