Canadian Politics Today

They are always free to cross the floor, or sit as an independent; it is not like that has never happened before.

Then they just become the subject of another leaders iron discipline. How about something novel, they get to consider the opinions of the people who actually elected them when they vote. If a party leader can't convince a group of essentially like minded people that a policy is a good one, perhaps they should rethink the policy instead of bringing down the hammer on our elected representatives.