‘Repulsive’: Floor-crosser Marilyn Gladu praises Liberals in HoC

Marilyn Gladu spent her political career as a Conservative MP. She has now crossed the floor, joined the Liberal cabinet, and stood in the House of Commons smiling while reading out a speech praising the government's trade diversification record and the minister of women and gender equality file. Jim Csek and Iain Burns on the week political betrayal stopped even pretending to be solemn.

In this segment from The Really Big Show, Jim and Iain play Gladu's House of Commons speech and sit with it for a moment. She is not a minor figure. She was a serious Conservative MP who spent years in opposition making the opposite arguments she is now cheerfully delivering on behalf of a Liberal government. Jim and Iain make a distinction that matters: throughout history people have betrayed their allies, their principles, and their friends. Some of them believed they were doing the right thing. They were solemn about it. They did not celebrate. They did not smile. They did not jump up and down. Gladu stood in the House with what Jim describes as a big old smile on display for her new masters, and the only question worth asking is what she got for it. Show us the trinkets. Show us what was in the packet.

They also cover the latest on the Alberta pipeline negotiations. Danielle Smith has now shifted her language from if to when on a new pipeline deal with Ottawa, saying there is an improved level of confidence after conversations with Carney. Jim and Iain read the fine print. The two sticking points are the industrial carbon tax and the carbon capture condition. The likely outcome is not a resolution of either but a delay: kick the industrial carbon tax to 2050, soften the carbon capture timeline, call it a compromise, and sell it to Albertans as a win. Jim and Iain argue this is exactly the wrong moment for compromise. The world is screaming for cheap reliable energy. A compromise that preserves the conditions making Canadian energy uncompetitive is not a deal. It is a delay dressed up as progress.

They also return to one of Carney's forgotten promises: judge me by the prices in the grocery stores. Jim and Iain note that food inflation in Canada is the highest in the G7. They rest their case. Fourteen months in, the pipeline is still pending, the grocery stores have delivered their verdict, and Carney is at his polling peak. The media has forgotten the promise. The numbers have not.

If Daniel Smith accepts a compromise that kicks the industrial carbon tax down the road and softens the carbon capture timeline while the world is in an energy crisis, is that a pipeline deal or a political cover story?

Let us know what you think in the comments.

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