Mark Carney is exploring just how big of a tent the Liberal Party can build and calibrate the party’s red progressive brand colour into a middling bluish purple.
In the past several months, Carney’s Liberals have gained five MPs, floor crossers from other parties. That quintet includes an MP who was elected three times as a Conservative in Nova Scotia (Chris d’Entremont), an MP who was elected four times as a Conservative in Edmonton (Matt Jeneroux) and an MP who was elected twice as a New Democrat in Nunavut (Lori Idlout).Soon they may be joined by Doly Begum, the Liberal candidate in the Scarborough Southwest byelection, who was until recently a deputy leader of the Ontario National Democratic Party.
Plus another Conservative floor crosser Marilyn Gladu MP for Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong , not on anyone’s list of MPs most likely to cross the floor to the Liberal Party
