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Former d\u2019Entremont staff member calls floor-crossing \u2018a slap in the face\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Article contentOne example would be the significant infrastructure upgrades coming to 14 Wing Greenwood. The base is in Acadie-Annapolis, but it impacts the whole region.Article content Kings-Hants MP Kody Blois, right, posted this photo on his Facebook page Nov. 5, a day after Acadie-Annapolis MP Chris d\u2019Entremont joined the Liberal Party. Photo by ContributedArticle contentThe two politicians would cross paths at various events or see each other while travelling back and forth to Ottawa. Blois said he teased d\u2019Entremont that, \u201cAs a good red Tory, you should be with our team.\u201dArticle content\u201cI always respected Chris\u2019 work,\u201d Blois said. \u201cI think he is respected across party lines in Parliament.\u201dArticle contentArticle contentMLA daysArticle contentLeo Glavine spent a lot of time trading questions with d\u2019Entremont over the years. Glavine was the health critic when d\u2019Entremont was Nova Scotia\u2019s health minister and after Stephen McNeil\u2019s Liberals won the 2013 election, the roles were reversed.Article content\u201cWe both had those opportunities to engage in strong debate and conversation,\u201d said Glavine, who represented Kings West from 2003 to 2021. \u201cI certainly appreciated the fact that we had a great respect for each other.\u201dArticle contentArticle content Leo Glavine was a longtime MLA for Kings West. \u2013 File photoArticle contentGlavine said he regarded d\u2019Entremont as a true Progressive Conservative.Article content\u201cYou have to run for a party and run under a banner and a leader, but I certainly didn\u2019t see Chris as in the strongest alignment with the current direction of the Conservative Party of Canada.\u201dArticle contentBlois said he had Conservatives tell him on the doorsteps during the election in April they were voting Liberal because Liberal Leader Mark Carney represented the values they were looking for in a government.Article content\u201cChris d\u2019Entremont is an example of an elected member who is coming to that same conclusion.\u201dArticle contentArticle content2003 mergerArticle contentBill Casey served seven terms as the member of Parliament for Cumberland-Colchester between 1988 and 2019. He initially served with the Progressive Conservatives then the Conservatives following the 2003 merger with the Canadian Alliance.Article contentHe was expelled from caucus in 2007 for voting against the Harper government\u2019s budget over changes to the Atlantic Accord. He was re-elected as an independent, retired and then was elected as a Liberal.Article contentArticle content Cumberland-Colchester MP Bill Casey, centre, talks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and genealogist Stephen White from the University of Moncton at Beaubassin in 2018. \u2013 Contributed Photo by Contributed \/ContributedArticle contentCasey said d\u2019Entremont will find a role within the Liberal Party.Article content\u201cHe is a centralist politician. He\u2019s not dramatically right, he\u2019s not dramatically left. He\u2019ll have no trouble fitting into the Liberals. I didn\u2019t and Scott Brison didn\u2019t,\u201d he said, referring to the former Kings-Hants MP who crossed the floor to join the Liberals in 2003.Article content\u201cThe Conservative Party of Canada now is not the Progressive Conservative Party that we all started with. It\u2019s completely different.\u201dArticle contentArticle contentFriendshipsArticle contentCasey acknowledge his decision did impact longtime relationships he had in the riding.Article content\u201cIt does change things and friendships do get strained, but you\u2019ve got to do what you got to do,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to stand up for what you think is right and sometimes there\u2019s a price to pay.\u201dArticle contentGlavine wasn\u2019t surprised by the move as much as the timing of the decision, as the budget was being presented. The Liberals are now only two seats from having a majority.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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