{"id":2254,"date":"2026-04-10T03:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:12:08","slug":"the-us-isnt-the-only-north-american-country-with-an-autocrat-leadership-the-difference-is-in-the-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/the-us-isnt-the-only-north-american-country-with-an-autocrat-leadership-the-difference-is-in-the-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"The US isn’t the only North American country with an autocrat leadership. The difference is in the delivery."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another day, another politician defects to the Liberal regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You may have voted for a conservative politician, but if that isn’t what the regime wants, well then, they’ll change that vote one way or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a farce of the worst sort. If a politician crosses the floor, there should an immediate byelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marilyn Gladu<\/strong>\u00a0(Sarnia-Lambton) became the fifth MP, and fourth Conservative to cross the floor to the Carney Liberals since November 2025, making it the largest mass defection to a governing federal party in 109 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since November 2025, four Conservatives: Chris d’Entremont (Nova Scotia), Michael Ma (Ontario), Matt Jeneroux (Alberta), and now Marilyn Gladu (Ontario), plus NDP MP Lori Idlout have all crossed to the Liberals. The Liberals now sit at 171 seats, one shy of a majority. Carney has said it’s always been the MPs who reach out to\u00a0him<\/em>, not the other way around. Sure they do when you have some third party within your government put out feelers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep your hands clean and let the underlings do the dirty work, and just pretend this amazing coincidence isn’t benefitting you when you are within the grasp of a majority you didn’t actually earn. Word parsing is obvious here, and it isn’t cute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, there is no law or obligation to accept <\/em>the defectors. They are not owed a seat because they don’t like it anymore. The sense of entitlement should be enough to reject their offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except why would they even take a gamble and offer to cross the floor out in public, unless they were certain they’d get something in return?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it does come at the steep cost for defectors. I asked Perplexity about the chances of defectors winning a subsequent election and this was the answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research is fairly damning for floor-crossers in the modern era. A peer-reviewed study published in the\u00a0Canadian Journal of Political Science, analyzing all Library of Parliament data from 1867 to 2015 (72 unique floor-crossing MPs who subsequently ran), found:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n