Lori Idlout’s first act as Liberal MP in the House of Commons, after crossing the floor from the NDP, was to vote against her new party in favour of an NDP motion calling for a stricter arms export control regime.
Prime Minister Mark Carney may have felt sympathy for Louis XIV’s maxim that every time he filled an office, he created a hundred malcontents and one ingrate — although, to be fair, Idlout was the one doing the favour by inching the Liberals closer to a parliamentary majority.
