MPs Who Changed Political Parties
In early 2005 Ontario Member of Parliament (MP) Belinda Stronach crossed the floor to the Liberal Party after running for Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, and coming in second to Stephen Harper. She ended her public relationship with Conservative MP Peter MacKay.
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Famous quotes containing the words changed, political and/or parties:
“I haven’t changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)