Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted... The Cons didn't win the seat, the man did as a member of the Conservative Party.
The Cons did win the seat, and they chose this guy as the representative. But then there's an issue of if the Cons kick this dude out of "their" seat - it triggers a special election, and really the only party capable of running an election right now is the liberals (which is why its super weird the Cons are threatening to say no to the budget and trigger an election, but whatever).
Not to mention the party just kicking someone out of their seat is
wildly unpopular (for good reason) and the Cons don't have very much momentum right now to begin with. The Cons basically just said "this isn't a hill worth dying on", but also why they're threatening any other cons from changing sides as well. If they just kicked this guy out of his seat, it would probably be much worse for them trying to deal with all of these other cons debating bailing on the party.
The good thing here is that this is sort of a sign the Conservative Party is falling apart (which tbf, it has been fracturing since Stephen Harper left). They're trying to keep people from jumping off the sinking ship.