{"id":367038,"date":"2025-11-09T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:29:11","slug":"ndp-mp-very-confident-no-new-democrats-will-cross-floor-to-liberals-as-budget-vote-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/367038\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP MP \u2018very confident\u2019 no New Democrats will cross floor to Liberals as budget vote nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B.C. NDP MP Gord Johns says he\u2019s \u201cvery confident\u201d none of the seven New Democrats in the House of Commons will cross the floor to the Liberals \u2014 even as he admits he\u2019s regularly approached by the Liberals.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, that\u2019s an everyday conversation they have with me, and it\u2019s a flat no and they know. That\u2019s been going on for years,\u201d Johns told CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live, in an interview airing Sunday morning, when asked if the Liberals have tried to recruit him.<\/p>\n

What was once an unusual question has become par for the course on Parliament Hill this week after two dramatic departures from the Conservative Party. On Wednesday, Nova Scotia MP Chris d\u2019Entremont quit the Tory caucus<\/a> to join the Liberals, blaming Pierre Poilievre\u2019s “negative” leadership.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Alberta Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux released his letter of resignation<\/a> amid speculation he was considering a move to the Liberal bench. Instead, Jeneroux announced he\u2019s leaving politics altogether and denied that coercion from the Conservatives was a motivation.<\/p>\n

Now, the speculation mill is spinning wildly over whether there could be more dissension \u2014\u00a0 especially with the Liberals now two seats shy of a majority and facing a crucial confidence vote when they look to pass the federal budget later this month. The party hasn’t been shy about leaving the caucus door wide open.<\/p>\n

\"PrimePrime Minister Mark Carney, left, walks with MP Chris d’Entremont, who crossed the floor from the Conservatives to join the Liberals, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday. (Justin Tang\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re open, as the prime minister has said, to any member of Parliament who wants to support a budget that we put forward that is extremely important for Canada in this moment in time,” MP Kody Blois, parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Mark Carney, told CBC\u2019s Power & Politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if those parliamentarians are looking increasingly at what Mr. Carney is putting forward and the way in which we are governing and they say, \u2018That\u2019s the type of vehicle I want to represent my constituents,\u2019 we are always open to those conversations.”<\/p>\n

New Democrat MP Johns said while that may have lured d\u2019Entremont to the Liberals, it won\u2019t sway New Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a big leap for him to cross over and join the Liberal Party of today because Carney is running on an agenda that I would say is a Progressive Conservative agenda,\u201d Johns said. \u201cYou look at [our] seven MPs. They are strong social New Democrats. We are dedicated to our cause and our movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservatives deny pressure tactics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources tell CBC News that former Conservative campaign manager Jenni Byrne, who has faced criticism<\/a> for “toxic and angry” behaviour, has been involved in the party’s efforts to quash any further floor-crossings.<\/p>\n

Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer told CBC’s The House with Catherine Cullen that there\u2019s \u201cno pressure\u201d on MPs to ensure they don\u2019t leave the party’s caucus. Scheer instead blames the Liberals for driving Jeneroux to resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Liberals start putting out rumours that feed a bit of a media frenzy \u2014 where all of a sudden people are inundating them with phone calls and messages \u2014 that might be a lot for an MP who didn’t ask for this aspect of the conversation to turn on him,” Scheer said, adding that he doesn\u2019t believe anyone else in caucus will be leaving.<\/p>\n

As for d\u2019Entremont, Scheer accused the former Conservative of having two personal grievances: not being able to serve as deputy Speaker of the House and not liking Scheer\u2019s YouTube posts. \u201cYou don’t like my videos, Catherine, you don’t have to watch them,\u201d Scheer told host Catherine Cullen in an interview that aired Saturday. \u201cI mean, it seems like a bit of a flimsy reason to make a decision like this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-367038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115520219582192630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}