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Q&A | ‘Treachery’ and ‘troublemaker’ MPs: why going against party leaders is verboten in Canadian politics

In the new book No I in Team, political scientist Alex Marland and his co-authors unpack why party discipline has gone too far.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and former prime ministers Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper. We are indoctrinating our election candidates and our future elected officials to think that the party knows best, that the leader is always right, says Alex Marland.

Before MPs even make it to the House of Commons’ hallways, political parties are “indoctrinating” their candidates to toe the leader’s line, instilling fear that dissenting voices will face “serious consequences,” says political scientist and author Alex Marland....

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