The first thing to know about this week’s floor crossing is that everybody likes Chris d’Entremont, an easy-going Acadian from Yarmouth, a fishing town on the southwestern end of Nova Scotia, across the Bay of Fundy from Maine.

He’s a natural politician — calm, low key and pleasant — a good MP for Acadie-Annapolis, which he has represented since he won a squeaker as a Conservative in 2019, and which he is now likely to hold as a Liberal.

The riding, where I have spent many happy days, is kind of like Canada, in that it is diverse and full of demanding, hard-to-please constituencies. It has francophones, anglophones, Indigenous people, farmers, military families and a lot of prosperous, mouthy lobster fishermen.

That grouping of demanding interest groups with different perspectives makes

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