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Backbench MPs are expected to use their brains or their mouths, but not both

The independent thought alarm went off in the Liberal universe again, and of course, the culprit was Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith. The MP for Beaches-East York has made a habit of using both his brain and his mouth since he entered politics a decade ago, which is a combination that will earn any MP a permanent seat on the backbench (though Mr. Erksine-Smith did enjoy a brief stint as housing minister in the final and desperate months of the Justin Trudeau government).

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