OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney and his fellow Liberal MPs said the party is open to talking to any other opposition MPs interested in joining their team, a day after Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont quit the Conservatives to join the government caucus.

Carney and d’Entremont were met with thunderous applause and cheers as they walked side by side into Wednesday’s Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill. Some Liberal MPs began chanting the former Conservative’s name.

Ahead of that caucus meeting, D’Entremont joined Carney at a post-budget media conference in the city’s south end, and told reporters he didn’t believe his values as a “red Tory” were being reflected in the current Conservative caucus.

“I didn’t find I was represented there … my ideals of an easterner, of a red Tory a

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