“We have to take a stand that we’re not going to read these talking points that are written by PMO staffers, that we’re not going to vote like trained seals based on how they tell us,” he said. “Too many backbench MPs do willingly what the Prime Minister’s Office wants them to do because they see that as a way of advancement in the party and within the government.”
That’s what Edmonton-St. Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber told reporters today following his decision to quit the Conservative caucus, according to a CBC report. But Rathgeber isn’t alone in those feelings.
Many past and present British Columbia MLAs told me the similar things during the filming of Whipped, my documentary on the secret world of party discipline. It’s a comparison I’ll be talking about Friday morning on CKNW’s The Bill Good Show at 9:05.
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