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Q: What rewards, if any, are you expecting for crossing to the Liberals?

Well, you can’t actually be offered anything. That would be illegal. So, I did not get offered anything but, watching for 10 years, people on the government benches tend to get more for their ridings and their projects. Interestingly, after I crossed, I had a call yesterday from the infrastructure and housing minister’s office wanting to get together and talk about the things we need in Sarnia-Lambton. I had sent (minister) Gregor Robinson, when I was re-elected in 2025, a one-page of all the things that lined up with his file that we wanted in Sarnia. It went really nowhere, until I crossed the floor. This is what I’m hoping will be the result.

Q: What will you tell your former Tory colleagues?

I have nothing but respect for my Conservative colleagues. People who know me, they know my views, and my views have not changed. This is one of the first conversations I had with the prime minister. I said listen, I’ve said a lot of terrible things about you and the Liberal caucus so how are we going to square that? I was super pleased to hear from him, ‘I’m not interested in looking into the past. I’m interested in looking forward.’ How are we going to build the country at this critical moment? How are we going to address these very important issues like the tariffs, like our defence? I think that is the right approach and, to me, it’s a fresh start. It doesn’t take away the things that I’ve said. I will be persuasive in arguing why we need to do things in a different way. I think the prime minister is open to that, I know colleagues that have welcomed me from the Liberal side are also open to that.

Rutte needs to go.

he United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world

There's this thing with a strait that seems to suggest otherwise.

Gladu is no red tory. The CPC is very much her ideological home. We're talking a reactionary who is against abortion, against vaccination, etc. who almost certainly ended her chances of getting re-elected with this move. She didn't cross without being offered something.

There's basically no reason for this one to cross the floor unless she was promised something in return. Considering I'm at odds with her on more or less any topic you care to name, I'm definitely not going to like whatever that is.

She’d probably fit in with the Greens, especially during May’s “wifi causes cancer” days.

That's...A crazy reach. Gladu is a reactionary who definitely fit very well in the CPC. This is like if Leslyn Lewis or Rachel Thomas or someone like that crossed the floor.

Turns out the only thing Carney values is power. Was that in his book?

Sorry I don't know how to teach having a poor memory.

Uh, 27. I can't remember the last time I opened one.

I'm not calling the NDP racist, I'm calling you racist.

Most people I think would agree it would be nice if we were a country mostly made up of native born citizens

And boy did I call it. I don't care about my fellow citizen's birthplace much at all, to be honest.

Complaining that there are more brown people than there used to be is a really weird angle of attack to show that.

Sure, one of those charts noting that white people make up a smaller percentage of Canada than they did in the 70's and suggesting that was a sign of Canada's decline. What could that possibly mean?