Another floor crossing?

Reports regarding Prime Minister Harper's cabinet shuffle indicate that Canadian voters might dealt another slap in the face, when one more MP decides to cross the floor. These reports, as of now, are unconfirmed. The member in question is Mississauga Liberal MP Wajid Khan, who, acording to various reports, will cross the floor and sit with the government. Harper named Khan as a special adviser to him on the Middle East and Afghanistan last summer.

First Belinda Stronach, then David Emerson, and perhaps Wajid Khan. When will we get tough on floor crossers? We can't wait until an election to hold them accountable. If an MP is elected as a Liberal, they ought sit as a Liberal or resign and contest the election again, requiring not only a riding nomination by the party's local constituency organization, but also must be democrtically re-elected by the people in the riding they represent. This system of simply cutting ties with one party and joining another is a disgrace, and ought to be stopped. The private members bill put forward this last session got nowhere.

If the reports about Khan are true and he does cross the floor, we ought to stand up and fight to hold our politicians accountable and represent the party they were elected to represent. Apparantly accountability, a key Conservative platform, has a fluid meaning and politicians can pick and choose when they're accountable.