Today, Garth Turner, announced his decision to sit in the Liberal Caucus. If we're keeping score, this brings the number of former Conservatives sitting in the Liberal Caucus to 4 (Bill Matthews, Belinda Stronach and Scott Brison being the other 3). If we were to add to these Diane St-Jacques, David Price, Keith Martin, Andre Harvey, Rick Laliberte, from the previous 2 Parliaments and juxtapose that against david Emerson's selfish move or Steve's recruitment of Wajid Khan, I would say that the long term trend definitely favours Canada's natural governing party.
Having said this, I am sure that there are a number of Liberal Bloggers who wish they could take back their words about Khan's defection to the Tories last month, like someone trying to put toothpaste back into the tube.
What would be really interesting here would be if there were a secret deal whereby the Liberals traded Khan for Turner and acquired the rights for a future star candidate Carole Taylor. Hmmn, but Vancouver Quadra is already a Liberal seat federally...
In case people think I am being hypocritical or self-congratulatory,
here is what I said about the Khan defection. Floor crossing is a part of politics and it really sucks to be on the losing side of a defection.
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