Four floor crossers in four months.
Let that sink in for a second…
Steven MacKinnon – Government House Leader – confirmed this week the Liberals are still shopping for more. One day after pulling Nunavut MP Lori Idlout from the NDP, he’s out there telling anyone who’ll listen that yes, they’re still courting. Still looking. Still buying.
As in…this is the plan. This is how you build a majority when Canadians won’t actually give you one at the ballot box.
The Liberals sit at 170 seats right now. Two away from the magic 172. Three byelections are on the books for April 13 – Scarborough Southwest and University-Rosedale in Ontario (both seats they already hold) and Terrebonne in Quebec. The math says they’re going to win the Ontario ridings. Gets them to 172.
So why keep shopping for floor crossers?
I don’t know…but when you look at what Idlout’s crossing actually cost us, the question gets a lot darker real fast.
Sheldon broke this down in his piece “Skin in the Game… The Floor Crossing” and it’s worth laying out the timeline again.
January 30, 2026. The feds announce a $480 million Nunavut housing partnership. 750 homes. $640,000 a unit. Sounds generous.
725 of those 750 contracts have not been publicly disclosed.
Idlout crossed the floor six weeks after that announcement.
Her husband runs Nunavut Holdings Inc. – an active construction company. In Iqaluit.
I’ll just leave that there for a moment.
Her son is also facing serious criminal charges. Political vulnerability. She needed something. Something arrived. Sixty days later she’s a Liberal.
Before her it was Matt Jeneroux, Michael Ma and Chris d’Entremont – all pulled from the Conservatives. Four for four. MacKinnon says they’re still looking.
So what does this actually cost?
Alberta sends roughly $20,000 per family per year east through equalization. Since 2007 that number has stacked up to $244.6 billion shipped out of this province. What do we get back in equalization?
Zero. Not a dime.
And now that money – your money – is buying undisclosed housing contracts in Nunavut to flip a seat. PM Carney is sitting on $6.8 million USD in Brookfield stock options while the feds run $250 million through Build Canada Homes.
Follow the money. It doesn’t lie.
Four crossings. The government openly advertises it’s shopping for a fifth. The price tag comes out of your pocket every single time.
~ Oliver