Royce Koop: Following d’Entremont’s defection, former Conservative MP Rick Perkins shared that the defector had confided his concern about losing his seat in the future: “If an election is held now, I will lose my seat. I might as well not run.”
If political survival was d’Entremont’s first priority, then it seems likely that a guaranteed Liberal renomination would have been the least he’d expect in return. And if he was promised this, then there is the possibility that the government might have run afoul of Section 8 of the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons, which states that MPs cannot use their positions to “improperly further another person’s … private interests…