By Andrew Macdonald
As Conservative MP, Chris d’Entremont says he was not aligned with party leader Pierre Poilievre, citing his negative leadership.
“In the last number of months, I wasn’t feeling I was aligned with the ideals of what the leader of the Opposition had been talking about,” said the three-term MP. D’Entremont this week joined the governing Liberals under Mark Carney.
CBC reports d’Entremont, when asked what pushed him out, said, “It’s just looking at leadership styles and whether we’re doing the right thing for Canada.”
D’Entremont said Canada is facing challenges and he felt it was better to be part of the solution to some of those troubles as a member of the government caucus, “and not continue to be negative,” reported CBC.
“It’s time to lead a country to try and make it better and not try to knock it down,” he told the media outlet. “We have a great opportunity here in Canada, and rather than knocking people down, we should try to find ways to work together, and that’s what I’ve always tried to do in my career.”
D’Entremont is a Red Tory, a long-time member of the former Progressive Conservative faction of the party and was elected three times to Ottawa. He is also a former Nova Scotia PC MLA and cabinet member.
Karen Oldfield worked among John Hamm’s premier’s office staff in 1999. Back row: left to right: Rob Batherson, Chad Rogers, David Tarrant, Chris Lydon (holding baby Caroline), Amanda Dean, James Mitchener, Chris d’Entremont; front, Jim David, Jim Cormier, John Hamm, Jamie Baillie, Peter Spurway, David MacGregor. (D‘Entremont is in both of these photos; he was EA to Neil Leblanc in 1999 and elected MLA in 2003.
John Hamm’s 1999 PC caucus gathered in June 2019 for a 20th anniversary photo. Back row from left, David Hendsbee, Chris d’Entremont, Angus MacIsaac, Richard Hurlburt, Bill Langille, Mary Anne MacGrath, Gordon Balser, Kerry Morash, Rodney MacDonald, Jim deWolfe; and front, Ron Chisholm, Jamie Muir, John Hamm, Neil Leblanc, Tim Olive, Peter Christie.
