What is the true cost of loyalty?

A Conservative proposal to have floor-crossing MPs pay up speaks to a level of frustration within the grassroots who ultimately have little say in what happens at the caucus level between elections.

The discourse over the permissibility of floor crossing is revived each time an MP changes their political stripes as the ‘losing team’ bemoans the lack of accountability to one’s constituents who sent the crosser in question to Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

September 9, 2026

A spate of floor-crossings within the last nine months has partisans spooked.

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