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# Stephen Harper on jumping parties
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200627stephen-harper-on-jumping-parties-html/
- Published: 2006-02-07T14:47:33.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:33:49.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Politics, #DashHouseCom, #wp

From [Pulse24 – Toronto’s News](http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top%5FStory/20050517-011/page.asp?ref=dashhouse.com):

> We do not go out of our way to romance MPs to cross the floor…We try to create a principled party and going about it in a principled way. We are cautious about party-jumping because it creates cynicism it and if they jump once, you are not sure they will not jump again. I will always handle that with extreme caution.

As my six-year-old son said this morning, “Why does it seem like we have the same government?”