Came home last week to a piece of mail that was very interesting. MP Scott Reid (Conservative) has sent out a package encouraging and enabling his constituents to vote for whether or not they wanted him to support or oppose the third reading of the Same Sex Marriage bill.
Brilliant strategy in my opinion because no matter how it goes he wins with his constituents. If a majority ask him to vote for the bill he can do so and say to his core supporters "Look, I followed what my voters asked for" and his party followers will have to applaud him for it. On the other hand, if a majority ask him to vote against it he can and in the next election his opposition to the bill cannot be used by his opponents because again, he can say "Look, I followed what my voters asked for".
Judging by my estimate of the demographic makeup of Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox&Addington, he'll get the majority support to oppose the bill like his party wants to anyway. Win-Win-Win situation.
So how can he be part of a party that so screwed up the Grewal Tapes affair?
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