Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is criticizing Tory MP Marilyn Gladu’s decision to cross the floor to join the Liberal Party, saying she should call a byelection to let her constituents decide which party will represent them.
Reacting to Gladu’s decision on social media, Poilievre said Prime Minister Mark Carney is “seizing a costly Liberal majority that voters denied him” by making “backroom deals” with MPs from other parties.
Poilievre noted that Gladu had said in January that MPs who crossed the floor should face their constituents in a byelection to give voters the final say. “I could not agree more. She should do so,” Poilievre said on April 8….