It wouldn’t be surprising if Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont wasn’t the last Conservative to cross the floor to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority Liberal government.

D’Entremont’s defection this week — leaving Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives to sit with the Liberals — sent shockwaves through Ottawa. It’s not often you see a sitting MP jump ship from the official Opposition to the governing party, especially one with such a different political stripe. But it’s not hard to understand why it happened.

When Carney and d’Entremont walked side by side into Wednesday’s Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill this week, they were greeted like heroes returning home. Liberal MPs erupted in thunderous applause and cheers. Some even began chanting d’Entremont’s name.

The optics were po

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