Gladu Switches Sides, Liberals Near Majority

0:00Wednesday, conservative MP Gladu switched sides and joined the liberal caucus, boosting their total to 171 seats in the House of Commons. That puts them just one seat short of a functional majority, where the speaker could break ties on key votes. Her move sparked backlash over her past social conservative stances, like supporting private bills to limit abortion access during her 2000. 20 leadership run, and voting against banning conversion therapy in 2021. Mark Carney defended the switch, highlighting her two decades in business as an engineer and her skills working across party lines. He stressed the liberal stick to core values, including women's right to choose, same-sex marriage, and opposing conversion therapy. Gladu has space heat before, from downplaying COVID risks and vaccines during the pandemic, to comments linking Mexican visitors to drug trade amid. Marijuana legalization debates, which she later clarified, with bi-elections in three

1:00riding set for Monday, including a super-close one in Quebec, and the liberal convention underway in Montreal this weekend. Eyes are on whether more MPs might cross over soon. Carney says he is often the last to hear about it. That's your update from Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey, with the story.