Pierre Poilievre’s fishing in CAQ waters is bearing fruit. At the end of his line: Eric Lefebvre, MP for Arthabaska and chief whip of the Legault government.
He left the CAQ to sit as an independent until the 2025 federal election when he will run for the Conservative Party of Canada.
This shows that even if Mr. Lefebvre’s links with the PCC date back to the Harper era, the sweet scent of power is now more enticing with Mr. Poilievre than with François Legault.
Mr. Lefebvre has every right to return to the CCP. In which case, however, he must resign his seat.
Inconceivable
Ethically, it is inconceivable that a member of the National Assembly continues to sit there, paid by Quebec public funds, while he works in his region for a political party at another level. .
If Pierre Poilievre cares so much about his new recruit, let him hire him in Ottawa until the elections instead of letting Quebec taxpayers continue to sign his generous paychecks.
As for François Legault, if he prefers to avoid another partial and the risk of losing it as for Jean-Talon, the Lefebvre “case” is no less inadmissible on an ethical level.
Unless Mr. Legault’s pro-conservative sympathies are such that he is ready to see his ex-MP plow his region for the PCC while he sits in Quebec.
Canary in the mine?
What if Eric Lefebvre was the canary in the mine? Will other CAQ elected officials succumb to conservative sirens? In this surreal story, the final irony is just as surreal. On the show All one morningPierre Poilievre did not even hide his contempt for provincial politics where his new recruit comes from.
Asked about Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s comments on Canada, his response was brutal: “I am not a leader at the provincial level. So, I have nothing to say about the provincial leaders.” If he becomes prime minister, that promises…