Joe Rogan and Pierre Poilievre interview

[brihard]

Is this a similar argument to Jagmeet's "positioning himself as kingmaker and getting what he wanted out of the government"? In the end, look at the cost his party paid for his abandoning his values. The cost to be part of the government may be quite high for both individual MPs and possibly the Liberal Party.

Sure, and my speculation was wrong on that one… Like many, my best guesses were overcome by larger events and some misread on my part.

I think it’s a somewhat easier call to say that crossing MPs entering a majority government will have more opportunity to make a direct
impact on government policy than if they stayed with a now-neutered opposition.

Maybe I’m wrong on that too. The fact remains that the LPC now have a majority government, and some MPs have chosen to join it from across the floor. Each will have done their own assessment, likely better informed than any of ours.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Indeed.

We are back to the voter, ultimately, rewarding or punishing behaviours.

Jagmeet and the NDP took all of the risk and got none of the reward for propping up the Trudeau version of the Liberals. The NDP core voters obviously saw it as a betrayal of their values and stayed away from them in droves last election. And it did not attract voters from the Liberal or CPC camps.

I personally think Jagmeet was woefully naive.

I think our disagreement is when exactly the voters should get their say.