Stephen Harper on jumping parties

From Pulse24 – Toronto’s News:

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?”