Don Davies: “I think what we need to do is rise above our own personal partisan interests and think of the health of our parliament…”

Whether or not there’s a majority government is fundamentally a decision of the Canadian people at the ballot box, and it should happen that way, not through backroom deals cut behind closed doors in Ottawa.

I think it'll cost jobs. And until there's measures that are in place that will address that, I don't think the strategy is complete.

So that’s another reason I’m more concerned about this bill now than I used to be, because now you have MPs who cross the floor openly saying that they think they can get more government pork in their riding.

When a parliamentarian crosses the floor to join a different party than they were elected with, they are unilaterally — at the very least — altering the will of their electorate.