Conservative member of Parliament Billy Morin says the Liberals are trying to get him to cross the floor, but he has no intention of leaving the Conservative caucus.
Speaking on a hot mic before a press conference on Parliament Hill, Morin asked journalists unprompted: “Do you want to run a story on floor crossing?”
When questioned if he would be the next floor crosser, he responded: “No, they’re trying to poach me.”
While Morin is not seen in the framing of the video recorded from the event, a Global News journalist was in the room and heard Morin speak with reporters.
Morin subsequently told Global News that a Liberal reached out to him asking, “Wondering if u ever had any reflections on what it would mean or wish to explore the dark side … We do want to grow out caucus to 7 preferably 8.”
“This shameless power grab in the face of democracy by the Liberals would attempt to make me just another number in their caucus,” Morin said in a statement.
“I am fully supported by my Conservative colleagues & leader to bring my voice and experience to the opposition team, rather than possibly being just 1 of 8 new voices to be tokenized. I am proud to be apart of a strong opposition – something Canadians are owed “
Morin was elected to represent the riding of Edmonton Northwest as a Conservative in the last federal election. He also previously served as the Chief of Enoch Cree Nation.
Five MPs have switched political teams to the Liberals in the past five months, including four Conservatives – and there is speculation that more could follow.
A senior government source tells Global News there are many ongoing conversations between the Liberals and Conservatives to get even more Tories to join the Liberal tent. A Conservative MP also told Global News that they believe more floor crossers will leave the Conservative caucus for the Liberals.
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The latest Conservative floor crosser, Marilyn Gladu, changed political stripes just five days ago.
Her switch to the government caucus was widely seen as the most shocking, given her history of supporting socially conservative stances, including restricting abortion, opposing a ban on conversion therapy and supporting the trucker convoy that took over Parliament Hill in 2022.
Prime Minister Mark Carney defended her switch at the Liberal convention this past weekend and emphasized that she will vote according to his party’s values.
Carney’s government is currently one seat shy of a majority.
Three key by-elections Monday will determine his government’s mandate. Two Toronto-area ridings, University-Rosedale and Scarborough-Southwest, are widely seen as safe Liberal seats that were previously held by former cabinet ministers Chrystia Freeland and Bill Blair.
However, the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne will be a tight race against the Bloc Québécois.
The Liberals won the seat in the last federal election by a single vote, which was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court due to mail-in ballot errors.
When the ship is going down the smarter ones jump first.
Typical Conservative drama queen. Blaming the Libs for all of their problems
Kind of interesting how Canadian Conservatives lie as easily as their American republican brethren.
Sooooo glad that the Cons will never form government again.
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POACH HIM! AS THEY WOULD AN EGG?
DANIEL SMITH CROSSED THE FLOOR. WAS SHE- POACHED? HOW CAN ANYONE TRUST HER NOT TO CROSS YET ANOTHER FLOOR – SOUTH.
How long has Carney been with INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE RING?
He should have went along with it, then blew the lid off the pot on the Liberals scheme if there was any dirty dishes that came with the deal.
That would at least given us, (the taxpayers who are their employer ) the opportunity to know exactly what the fox going on.
These floor crossers have homes in the cities they were elected in right? Pay them a visit.
Super
U MEAN SINCE 5 MP’S WERE PAID OFF, TO CROSS FLOOR. YOU WERE GONNA BE #6 ? YEAH YEAH, NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU MEANT. YOU WERE JUST TALKING IN CIRCLES
WE ARE OFFICIALLY ROYALLY F / ED ! BEND OVER ONCE AGAIN, AND TAKE THE BIG ONE UP the A S S ! EMPTY YOUR POCKETS and DO AS I SAY. NOT AS WE DO. GOD HELP US, PLEASE🙏
Good. Stay where you are under the losers run by PP. Let the others who can’t stand him anymore cross.
Majority here we come. Keep going and get a super majority.!
Any person willing to change parties shortly after an election is surely not someone who can be counted on for a vote, especially if the legislation looks anything like from the JT era
Those liberal Communists have absolutely no shame that Mark Carney is a scumbag what a piece of garbage he is what a slimeball him and the rest of his liberal communist comrades what a disgrace there should be legal consequences for this trying to poach members of a different party to join the liberals so they could have a majority disgraceful disgusting talk about political interference this is a sad day we know the other three or four that crossed they were definitely bribed in some way that is got to be investigated to the full extent of the law and and those responsible should be held responsible and punished to the fullest extent of the law no mercy for these liberal communists Marxist. Don’t worry Carney it’s all going to come out you and your liberal communist scumbags
Give the liberals some more time to F-up this country. Clearly the voters think 10 years wasn’t enough. They aren’t done apparently.
I’ll take things that never happened for $500.
I support this.
Ruin the country
ConCarney needs to be cautious, karma can come back and bite.
It called free will. The MP doesn’t have to cross the floor if it goes against their standards and ethics. Carney is popular yes, but so was Tru-DOG early in his mandate.
Carney has got very little done in almost a year.
Soon PP will be as relevant as me.
Wow. Crazy. Amazing how this is the very first Canadian government in human history that has ever had people crossing the floor. Its never happened before so this must be utterly insane. How can the Liberals be so unscrupulous? How can they be the very first in history to ever do this? This must be unjustified. Just wow. Never before has someone from one party crossed over to any other party. Ever. Not in human nor insect history. Did I say it was crazy yet? Cause, like…. crazy…
Shameless,cheap liberals. Such vile behavior, but no surprise there.
lol some of you are so funny. I know a conservative MP very well. He has told me he gets calls every week from Carneys office requesting that he come over for the Ministry of his choice because hed be ‘such an asset with his background and experience’. You liberals are in complete denial. i wish more MP’s would come out and talk about how hard they are being pursued.
Conservative’s know PP is the not ever going to be PM so the rats are jumping ship to save their jobs.
PP must see that a new Conservative leadership race would quite possibly stop this bleeding, but he likes the free mansion. The big tent, meanwhile, shifts to the PM.
I think some Cons may fear PP will stay on so they see better opps on the other side for at least five years. PP should go.
Expect nothing less from Pinnochio
Typical lieberal corruption!
If he’s not making this story up to discredit the Liberals why not drop the name of the person who tried to poach him? As for floor crossing the Cons didn’t mind when they were poaching…oh, wait…that never happens under PP!
Cons didn’t mind when PP poached a whole riding!!!
Sounds more like he’s a smith/ polievre lacky vying for attention.
It is unethical to poach. Should it not be against parliamentary rules? There should be a bi-election called, not just bribery involved.
You must be dreaming Carney has better taste than that!!!
cons under pierre are doomed no room in canada for social conservatives
They can’t poach someone with values and integrity
So how much of this is truth and how much is it an attempt to discredit liberals and prop up conservatives