Another Floor Crosser Makes Four – March 13, 2026

Mark Carney's trip to the Canadian Arctic and beyond will have a nearby well-wisher in Lori Idlout, MP for Nunavut, who recently left the New Democratic Party to join the Liberals. What prompted this floor-crossing, which seems to have different motives than the others? And what will the NDP have to do to regain any sort of hope of influence? Plus, in the wake of the federal government not disclosing a strike on a Canadian area of a military base in Kuwait, the bureau chiefs share their own difficulties getting clear information on the war and the prime minister’s stances. CPAC host Michael Serapio discusses it all with bureau chiefs Robert Fife, Tonda MacCharles and Joël-Denis Bellavance.