Sarnia-Lambton's Tory MP believes a new deal between the Liberals and New Democrats is anti-democratic.
The “supply and confidence” agreement, announced Tuesday, is set to keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government in power until 2025.
Marilyn Gladu said the opposition is supposed to get special privileges at committee in a minority government and that this deal essentially gives the Liberals a majority.
"Normally, if the Bloc and NDP and Conservatives all agreed on something, we could overrule the government, and that is now taken away because this agreement where the NDP are going to support the Liberals on everything," she said. "So essentially, the NDP is no longer the opposition, they are really the supported government."
Gladu said because the NDP no longer fits the definition of an opposition party, the Conservative Party is going to be investigating the repercussions of the agreement.
"There are different groups in parliament, according to the rules -- there is the cabinet, there are members supporting the government and then there are the opposition parties. So, I think this is bringing up unprecedented questions."
Gladu said three million Canadians voted for and wanted NDP representation, not Liberal representation. She said there actually is an advantage of having different viewpoints brought to the House of Commons.
"And although Jagmeet Singh has traded off for pharmacare and dental care, he should be aware that the Liberals have been promising to implement pharmacare since 1992 and they've done nothing."
Gladu said this could be another series of broken promises from the Liberals which she expects would end the relationship between the two parties.
She also said the deal is actually helping the Conservative Party attract new voters.
"Because there are a lot of people who voted NDP because they didn't like Justin Trudeau. And now they're saying 'well, why did I vote NDP, I'm always going to get Liberals anyway,' and they're starting to look at the Conservative Party and I think that's great for us and there's nowhere to go but up."
Sarnia News Today asked Gladu if she expects the agreement to last until 2025.
"Well, marriages don't last forever, as many of us know, so I would say that I hope it doesn't last forever because there is actually an advantage of having different points of view brought to the house."
