Marilyn Gladu does not appear to be a very impressive person. No one is buying the crap narrative that she is selling:
No one with more than 15 brain cells buys this crap.
All these floor crossers are some of the most pathetic people I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/Ci8cIaT00R
— Gurv (@GurvSC) April 10, 2026
“…and it’s good for me as well!”
How good, SWEETHEART?
HOW FREAKEN’ GOOD?
It is particularly mind boggling to me that the rep of a border town has decided to join Team “I hate America, and don’t want to talk trade with them”. She thinks that’s good for her constituents? No, she doesn’t give a single F about her constituents.
She’s fighting Trump’s unjust tariffs? Uh, didn’t the cowardly SCOTUS do that for you already? So you have no cause whatsoever to flee into the arms of Communist Chyyyynah and International drug/money laundering cartels.
So what she’s saying is that Orangemanbad is the only winning politic in Canada … ?
Not with her constituents I hope. Sadly yes with most of my fellow boomers. I’ve seen polls where every other generation is slightly conservative, but boomers are over 70% I hate Trump so I’m voting liberal. I remember when youth were the stupid ones who voted for free stuff socialism. Now it’s boomers with a single issue voting to kill the country.
very very correct sir. anybody remember ‘The Nation’s Business’ a free time telecast etc etc?
well l do because despite being a young teenager my interest in politics manifest early.
and it was my generation hard core socialist and my dad’s many conservative (with a small c)
now the boomers have been subjected to decades of propaganda and ‘freebies’.
it ‘worked’.
I’m reminded of Belinda Stronach. Not long after the massive media frenzy over her floor crossing, she faded into the background, rarely to be heard from again.
The actions of a whore with less talent and respect.
We know what she is, but the price of her professional choice will remain undisclosed.
I have nothing against floor crossings per se. People’s opinions change, parties change, situations change, and thus we can expect that politicians occasionally find themselves in parties they no longer align with.
Whether a particular floor crossing is motivated by sincerely held beliefs or crass oppportunism is something for voters to decide. It will be interesting to see how these politicians do in the next election.
Hence why recall elections are a *necessity* for floor-crossers. See if the public that elected them agrees with what they now pretend to be their newest “sincerely-held” motivation. This is especially necessary in something as utterly broken as the Westminster parliamentary system, where one vote can make the difference between absolute total control over the executive and legislative branches.
They will face election — in the next election cycle. Our system of government is based on electing individuals, not their parties.
I know where this comes from. Someone who abandons your favoured party seems like a traitor. They’re not. No one owes life-long allegiance to a political party.
What? That is not even remotely how a Westminster parliamentary system works.
In the dream world you keep trying to convince yourself you live in, maybe. Reality is far, far different, and your refusal to acknowledge it is bizarre in the extreme (and very telling).
Your logic is flawed. The Westminster Parliamentary system results in the voter only able to vote based on party platform and policy. Voting for the “best man for the job” doesn’t exist. Therefore the voters chose CPC not Gladu.
The Canadian electorate did not give Marx Carnage a majority. His corrupt dealings did. He will soon be free to push his dictatorship without having to get other parties on board. By the time the next election comes the damage will be done. To accept floor crossings is a character flaw.
“No one owes life-long allegiance to a political party”.
No they don’t. You can vote for whoever they want each election, but MPs owe allegiance to the party they ran under, and if they can’t their option is to quit.
The vast majority of voters aren’t voting for a person, they’re voting for a party affiliation.
…MPs owe allegiance to the party they ran under…
Agreed. If they do cross, then their crossing should trigger an immediate by-election to be held within 60 days. This “we’re stuck w/ you until the next election years down the road horseshit” is bullshit. And, if they do not win re-election, they should be accountable for election costs.
That would stop this floor-crossing garbage in its tracks. Bastards…
First past the post, baby. First past the post.
Our system of government is about quantity, not quality.
I’ve got less issues with cross dressers than floor crossers.
Even Liberals trapped in a Conservative body?
Lol.
Liberals are trapped in human bodies.
She’s entitled to … ‘live her truth’ … shame she didn’t afford voters the same respect.
Consider the following
She is being blackmailed or she wants to be a fox in the henhouse
For the first, if it actually was of blackmail to get her to cross the floor would this appear any different?
On the later, if such a person expounded on points of view such as she has (vaccine scepticism, support for the freedom protesters, and particularly her anti-abortion stance) would the liberals have even allowed her to run for the riding nomination?
Under normal circumstances the liberals would hold her up as an example of the extreme right wing tinfoil hat wearing MAGA types they want no where near there party.
Good points.
Exactly. For 10 years she opposed everything the Liberals stand for, and now suddenly she joins them and we’re supposed to believe she changed her outlook?
I don’t know why she joined the Libs and she will never tell us.
She betrayed her constituents who elected her as a strong social conservative in the Conservative party with 53.1% support.
Liberals will never trust her. She has abandoned her convictions and will parrot the party line but they will never trust her.
I don’t object to floor crossing when prostrate Catholics do it. But that’s about my limit.
I support recall petitions of floor crossers. I am sick of the left simpering about democracy, the liberals couldn’t win a majority via the electorate so they manufactured a majority via back room deals. What the liberals have done is abandon democracy in favor of a “Manufactured” government to enrich the party. This isn’t a democratic government it’s a completely manufactured one without the support of the electorate.
Our current system of government is that we elect individuals to parliament. Your proposal would change that. How would you deal with independents joining a party, or party members becoming independent?
This is not the US where you can choose a representative who can work as an individual regardless of party affiliation. Nor can you vote separately for the head of state.
Federally and Provincially we are under the Westminster Parliamentary system. Voting for the “best man for the job” does not work. Sure you can do that but you’re just wasting your time.
If he is in opposition all he can do is make noise. He cannot change what is being legislated.
If he is in the governing party he is restricted by the party whip to fall in line with party policy. If he doesn’t he is removed from caucus.
You are only able to vote based on your preferred party platform and policy. It’s not a written law it’s just the reality of the system.
The majority vote based on party platform and policy regardless of whether they understand the concept. An MP, MLA or MPP who crosses the floor betrays the electorate.
Oh please, your what if is just another example of nonsense. They didn’t run as Independents they ran as conservatives.
Oh please, pick up your sookie and suckie on it. We are talking about Conservatives who crossed the floor your rebut has no value in a rational conversation. Oh look a child walking home alone, quick criminalize it based on a liberal hypothetical dream.
Our current theory of government is that we elect individuals to parliament. Our actual system of government is one of party affiliation. It’s not impossible for an individual to be elected to parliament; people still do it from time to time. But you can bet this woman didn’t. At least since MacKenzie King’s day, we elect the party of the leadership we want by voting for whoever represents them.
In such a system, it seems reasonable to require a new mandate if affiliation changes in any way. Obviously, the better course would be to abolish Parliament and make me dictator for life, but I suppose that’s a bit much to expect..
Of course, if the public overwhelmingly acclaims me as dictator, they wouldn’t have much choice, would they?
Ahem.
I said, “if the public overwhelmingly acclaims me…” Is this microphone working? Hello out there!
Our system is stupid. Individuals run for parties and most people vote based on party affiliation. If you run as a Liberal you support Liberal policies. If you run as a Conservative you support Conservative causes. That’s what people are voting for. To then just switch parties is election fraud. Everything you said when you campaigned was a lie if you switch parties. That’s fraud.
What nonsense. If we elect individuals, then why do we even have a party system? Why do they run under the banner of a political party. Typical nonsense.
In the US they employ the primary system.
To get the party nomination you have to win a primary where declared party supporters get to vote for the nominee.
The safe guard is that unless you register as a party supporter (not necessarily a party member) you don’t get a vote, and when you do register you can’t interfere with the other party’s nomination because you can’t vote in the other parties nomination race.
If you declare yourself independent then you wait till election day to cast your vote for one of the successful nominees.
You still get floor crossing but any representative that does so usually has a very short career in politics.
Crossing the floor should not be an option. You are either loyal to your party or you quit and hold a byelection. Most people are voting for the party, not the person. Crossing the floor is basically election fraud.
Let’s analyze this.
Conservatives had a plan before the last election, such as it was.
Certain Carney character basically stole the whole plan. You can say that people voted conservative in a shade of the so called ‘Liberal’. The so called ‘Liberals’ basically were elected on the conservative platform, such as it was.
You can say that the difference between the so called ‘Conservatives’ and so called ‘Liberals’ was and is only a few minutes of a degree.
For conservatives to gain anything from now on, they must produce a platform that is conservative. That however is highly unlikely due to the young punks that graduated with degrees in Political Scientology*. You gotta remember that they went to the same schools as the so called ‘Liberal’ Political Scientologists*.
The woman is a perfect example, as much as you can get, of the nondifference in the two parties today.
The only difference is the quality of lust for power.
Political scientologists* can create all the hot air that they possibly could, you gotta hava just about anybody else you can think of to actually change and persuade the people at elections that spending billions and billions, as Sagan would say, is not conductive to solid government.
You can’t have things if you got no money to spend on it, as anybody that goes to work every day and makes a living for themselves and their families can attest to.
*Political Scientology is another term that those that went to school for a long time call ‘Political Science’. If you go to a coffee shop in the morning in a small town anywhere, there are more people more qualified in political ‘science’ than any of those that leaned how to pull wool over people’s minds.
…. so there you have it ….
It’s a fact of reality that Trump is not popular with leftists voters in this country. His 51st state comments had the effect of inducing panic in leftists voters such that they abandoned the NDP and shifted their votes to the Liberals. The NDP leadership was more than happy to go along with that, and that remains true of the new leader. They don’t care if they are doomed to irrelevance in the House of Commons as long as some sort of “United Front” can be cobbled together to face Orange Man. This is a problem that has faced the Conservative Party more than once, and they simply had to wait it out until the left was so sick of the Liberals that they switched back to the NDP. Once the leftist vote split, the Tories could come up the middle.
“The NDP leadership was more than happy to go along with that, and that remains true of the new leader. They don’t care if they are doomed to irrelevance in the House of Commons as long as some sort of “United Front” can be cobbled together to face Orange Man.”
Well said, Dennis.
TDS can turn otherwise intelligent, reasonable people into drooling morons…and never more so than when the ‘herd mentality’ takes hold and amplifies the effect.
This could all have been avoided if there had been an adult in the room who didn’t stand to gain politically from the ‘Elbows Up!’ circus, and who understood only two simple truths:
First that Donald Trump was asking for three very reasonable things from Canada, and all we had to do was agree to TALK about them and maybe make a token concessions or two…in return for which Trump would also back down from his own initial positions (as he always does).
Second, that President Donald Trump will be *gone* in three years (or perhaps less, if he continues to work his ass off 24/7 as he does). Whatever deals we make with him are not written in stone.
(I am leaving out the huge disparity in military/economic/social power between Canada and the USA because it is so obvious that it *should not even need* to be mentioned; anyone who serious thinks we could ‘win’ a trade war with the Americans is simply delusional…)
This doesn’t surprise me at all.
I lived in Sarnia in the 1970’s and it was solidly Liberal. It voted for Pierre Trudeau.
(And solidly union until they drove much of the petro-chemical refiners to move elsewhere.)
A dog always returns to its vomit.
Speaking of “intellectual betters”, a convicted child sex offender is organizing a Carney’s candidate campaign.
https://www.thebureau.news/p/convicted-child-sex-offender-organizing
Child molestation = Liberal values!
Decades ago, the Liberals decided that people convicted of crimes were far more important than victims, and that rehab (forgiveness) should replace punishment.
This goes all the way back to when Comrade Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister.
His Solicitor General Jean-Pierre Goyer who in September 1971, introduced the penal reforms that he had been promising since the spring of 1971. Under his reforms, prisoners’ in federal penitentiaries were permitted to grow their hair long; allowed greater chances to earn parole; were permitted for the first time in Canadian history conjugal visits with their wives and girlfriends; and allowed greater educational opportunities as most Canadian criminals were barely literate.
Goyer told the House of Commons when introducing his bill:
“For too long a time now, our punishment-oriented society has cultivated a state of mind that demands that offenders, whatever their age, and whatever the offence, be placed behind bars. Too many Canadians object to looking at offenders as members of our society, and seem to disregard the fact that the correctional process aims at making the offender a useful and law-abiding citizen, and not any more an individual alienated from society and in conflict with it.
CONSEQUENTLY, WE HAVE DECIDED FROM NOW ON TO STRESS THE REHABILITATION OF INDIVIDUALS, RATHER THAN THE PROTECTION OF SOCIETY.
Our reforms will perhaps be criticized for being too liberal or for omitting to protect society against dangerous criminals. This new policy will probably involve some risk, but we cannot maintain a system which in itself can cause even more obvious dangers.”
Child molestation = Liberal values = muslim vales!!!
There ya go!!!
There isn’t a single impressive member of the Cuckservative Party. The fact anyone believes anything that comes out of any current or former CPC member says more about their mentally deficient supporters than it does about them.
I happen to like my conservative MP. A former homeschooled man who applied for University and passed the necessary exams at 15 or 16 years old. He graduated with his science degree and masters by the time he was 21. Went med school and became an emergency room physician and eventually head of the department before most even pass med school. He is motivated enough by actual conservative principals to give that all up to run for MP, and he won in a “purple” riding.
Great! What kind of a PM would he make? Just because you’re a likable MP doesn’t mean you possess the ingredients to make a decent PM. I consider my conservative MP as marginally passable. Would she make a decent PM? Hell, no!
That applies in triplicate for the Liberal Party, and unfortunately they run the government.
Correction
The Ottawa bureaucracy runs the liberal party.
MP’s are nobody’s.
Ministers are held hostage by their DM’s
The PMO runs exclusively on the advice of the Clerk of the Privy council
And the current PM is one of them (ex governor bank of Canada)
“There isn’t a single impressive member of the Cuckservative Party.”
No, because they have been purged already.
” The fact anyone believes anything that comes out of any current or former CPC member says more about their mentally deficient supporters than it does about them.”
Sadly true. They were given an outstanding opportunity to counter all the ‘Elbows Up!childishness deliberately induced by the Liberals with facts, logic and reason. They refused, choosing instead to take the safer option of jumping on board the TDS train and hoping that the voters would choose them instead of the Liberals.
(which they NEVER do when offered the choice of Liberal or Liberal Lite….why the CPC thought it would be different this time is still a mystery…)
Shrug. If there was a price to be paid for the lack of integrity this wouldn’t happen. But there isn’t.
To clearly represent Canada, the Maple Leaf on the flag should be changed to a Sap-dripping Knot Hole.
Funny how we have such difficulty providing free medical care, but free lack of integrity is abundant!
All of these floor crossers claim to have “heard from their constituents.”
Really?
You heard very clearly from the majority of your constituents on election day.
20 or so phone calls to her office from liberal operatives should not change the fact that in this woman’s case thousands of her constituents voted for a certain platform….not for her.
Policies, not the person.
Some of the crossers have been liberal lite all along. The NDP woman was bought straight out.
But this one? Did Carney & co dig up some dirt on her?
Also, note the timing. The crossings were obviously planned for a time, and only are enacted when there is a scandal to distract from. So the Chattering Class run after the latest floor crossing and forget about whatever the Libs need to bury.
An out of control budget? Floor crossing.
The PBO eviscerates the lies and duplicity in govt spending masquerading as investment? Floor crossing.
The Alto train is tied to Champagne’s wife, and SNC Lavelin are to build the track (was there any tendering of contracts, or just a simple insider windfall?)? The latest floor crossing.
And the media are all a-flutter over this, while the massive corrupt boondoggle of the unnecessary train is forgotten.
There already are trains, buses, and flights along this route. This will simply be a faster train. A vanity project that was not called for.
But the Chattering class, like a pack of immature schoolkids, will chase the shiny bauble and never return to something far more important.
With apologies to school children.
Every politician is a high-priced whore
She wasn’t getting enough action with the Cons
Now she’s gone to the Libs where anal, salad tossing and bukkake are an everyday occurrence
Personally, I think the whole Westminster system, the useless Canadian constitution and the Barter of Rights should all be binned and replaced by the U.S. constitution and Bill of Rights. While we’re at it we could get rid of appointed senators and judges.
You’d have to convince millions of subjects, probably well over half the Hoser population, that freedom isn’t as scary as they think it is.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose. I have this on serious authority.
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free.
Certain conditions apply, but generally, yes. You sometimes get shipping charges, usually justified by location.
l was advised very early on in my political studies that *our* Cdn system has ‘the best of both systems’
ie westminster and USA. tihsllub. it might even be the WORST of both systems. and here we are,
‘The Age of Floor Crossers’ (reminds one of ‘Street Walker’)
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The Canadian system of government is the same one the 13 colonies rejected 250 years ago.
Comparing the two countries which one is leading the world and which one is not?
The more I hear about her, the more I keep thinking of the “grenade drop” meme. Conservative is the soldier, Liberal party is the stairwell.
Sign the petition against floor crossings.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7315
‘subscribe to the s-feed’ or whatever it was gets an error
those useless “Commons” petitions are there to think you have a say.
I have seen some that garnered significant signatories, to no avail.
Meanwhile, Carney is gaslighting us to death, but have a nice day.
She is great.
A shining example of a “progressive politician”.
And all who condone her actions and attempt to justify such activities,expose themselves.
Trust.
Civil society requires trust to function.
Politics requires some minimum level of integrity.
Proudly boasting of your ability to deceive those who elect you and dismissing such deceit as “Politics” is cultural suicide.
Liberalism is a progressive disease.
Every politician who accepts such betrayals by serving alongside the liar..
Every idiot who says”Floor crossing is not illegal.”
Every supporter of “power by any means..
They are telling you that they lie.
That lying is what they do..then they tell you that you should trust them..
Sure such activities are business as normal,if you wish to live in a low trust kleptocracy.
On the bright side,as so many have told us that their word means nothing..we can stop listening.
As their words mean nothing,by their actions you must judge.
And those actions condemn them all.
In a Country where people gave a shit, she’d be hounded from office.
Tar and feathers? Or how about eggs?
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/campbell_stewart_11E.html
Never trust a Campbell.
Another Big Fat Ugly White Broad in Government.
We must mock these Disgusting Marxist Sasquatch Spawn.
We are done. Nothing worth defending here
Too many Jeets and KORANDERTHALS
She reminds me of the woman who was Arnie in disguise in Total Recall.
“Two weeks!”
Then her head exploded.
comments on this story at National Post get responses as expected, ie PP ‘has zero support’ etc
these are VERY polarized times.
is someone going to do a charlie kirk on marx carnage? just asking . . . . .