"In that same interview, Poilievre had boasted of how united the Conservative Party was under his leadership "If you look at our party over the last three years, we've had very little dissent," he said but Poilievre's latest line of attack brought out the doubters in his midst. Rumours of potential floor-crossers rolled around Ottawa. Then, about a half hour before Champagne tabled his budget in the House, word slipped out of d'Entremont's impending departure to the Liberals."
"Unfortunately, it can be easy for long stretches to forget about most of the 343 democratically elected members of the House of Commons or to know next to nothing about them. But then, every so often, someone who is not the prime minister, the finance minister or the leader of the Opposition does something to steal the headlines. So it was, with all due respect to Francois Philippe-Champagne and his sizable budget, that this became the week of Chris d'Entremont and Matt Jeneroux,"
Most of the 343 elected members of the House of Commons often remain largely unknown to the public. Two Conservative backbenchers, Chris d'Entremont and Matt Jeneroux, stepped away from their roles, with d'Entremont joining the Liberals and Jeneroux announcing his intention to resign. The departures followed an interview in which Pierre Poilievre called RCMP leadership "despicable" and alleged, without evidence, a cover-up involving Justin Trudeau. Poilievre had previously boasted of party unity, but his remarks prompted doubts and rumours of further dissent. The timing around Francois-Philippe Champagne tabling a sizable budget made the moves politically symbolic and consequential.
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