Joe Rogan and Pierre Poilievre interview

[brihard]

Imagine hiring a lawyer to represent you in court only they start pursuing issues counter to your own and your only recourse is to hire different lawyer, but only after paying them for 4 years.

Lawyers have a legally recognized and defined duty to a specific individual client, who they advise, but who then instructs them.

MPs represent a constituency but at no point are elected with the expectation that they must and will adhere to a single inflexible viewpoint. With over a hundred thousand constituents per riding that’s unworkable. We choose MPs because we trust them as an individual to do the best they can for our riding in the aggregate.

I’d be ok with a high-threshold recall petition mechanism, but not automatic byelections.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I like to see a requirement that MP's have to go independent for 6 months and have to hold a referendum with the voters in their riding. Election Canada can provide the website and process to vet respondents. Questions are simple:

1. Remain independent
2. Return to the party
3. Join party X

 

[Jarnhamar]

Okay, lawyer example was flawed.

We choose MPs because we trust them as an individual to do the best they can for our riding in the aggregate.

I don't think that's what the majority of Canadians do at all. Overwhelmingly we choose based on party affiliation.

MP's can try to champion their ridings needs but at the end of the day how many MP's vote contrary to what their party tells them to do? 1%? And even then it's a one-off.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I like to see a requirement that MP's have to go independent for 6 months and have to hold a referendum with the voters in their riding. Election Canada can provide the website and process to vet respondents. Questions are simple:

1. Remain independent
2. Return to the party
3. Join party X

Except becoming an independent doesn't really matter if you've been bribed or blackmailed to cross the floor. You'll still vote for the party that pays you and carry their water. All you do is make it easier for the engineers of the plan to more vehemently deny interfering in democracy.