🇨🇦 Carney's Liberal majority was built on floor-crossers, now they're moving to stack committees like they won a mandate

Five MPs switched sides after the election — four of them former Conservatives — giving the Liberals 174 seats and control they didn't earn at the ballot box. Now Steven MacKinnon wants committee majorities to reflect that manufactured outcome. The Conservatives are right to push back: this isn't how voters drew the map. Floor-crossing isn't illegal, but using defectors to rewrite parliamentary power a year into a term reeks of procedural theft.

The CBC frames this as normal housekeeping. It's not. When you need turncoats to claim a majority, you don't have a democratic mandate to govern like you do. Carney inherited Trudeau's mess and is now governing like he won a landslide. Canadians voted for a minority. They're getting something else entirely.

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