NDP Dirty Tricks

The NDP has been bombarding a Quebec riding with automated phone messages calling for a non-existent byelection, and I don't see any outrage at the CBC over NDP "dirty tricks". They have a "robo-phone" calling every household in the riding criticizing the sitting MP and demanding a byelection. Classy. The Dippers feel it justified because they originally won the riding, or at least Jack Layton did. It is the legal right of MPs to sit with their party of choice. If she only ran because of Layton and Jack is gone, then it is her right to choose a new party. That's a Canadian tradition, a part of our heritage going all the way back to the government of Sir John A MacDonald.

The Dippers are acting like a terrible offense was committed against them, which they feel justifies assailing the people of St-Maurice-Champlain with phone spam. Or they are over-reacting with the goal of discouraging other discouraged MPs from crossing to another Party. She'll run in the next election, so voters will eventually have the chance to boot her from office if they so choose. Though historically, floor crossers tend to perform well in their next election with their new party.