Marilyn Gladu is Mark Carney's latest weird floor crosser...

The Sarnia MP is a reall odd fit for Carney's Liberal Party no matter how you slice it.

So there I am this morning, sitting in the sun in beautiful Palm Springs, California, putting the final touches on my Ford/Poilievre piece when bam - news breaks. Don’t feel bad for me, it’s great down here and I’m enjoying the slower pace, but did anyone expect Marilyn Gladu to cross the floor to the Liberals?

Those who haven’t heard the news yet are asking who Marilyn Gladu is, those of you who have heard the news have already Googled her to find out.

I was spending the morning enjoying the nice weather on the patio when the news broke, so I just soaked up more sun and posted excerpts from her weird, self-published memoir from 2020 called Tales of the Globe Trot. I’ll post those excerpts below, but suffice to say it is a weird book with tales of hanging out in a Thai bordello with 14 year-old prostitutes, her tale of being enthralled with meeting a “burly black man” with really white teeth, her comments about her friend’s 17 year-old daughter “with curves in all the right places,” her admission of driving drunk and more.

See those excerpts below, but first…

Carney’s tent is now big enough to include Marilyn Gladu, a woman who actively supported the Freedom Convoy, opposed vaccine mandates and was critical of vaccines generally, who has denounced the Liberal government for plans to introduce a digital ID and who is generally considered a social conservative.

You can support all of these views, you can oppose all of these views, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that these views run counter to the views of Mark Carney. In fact, I’d say they run counter to the views of 99% of Liberal MPs and voters, but Gladu helps with the majority.

The Liberals now have 171 seats in the House of Commons while the opposition hold 172 seats. After next Monday’s three by-elections, where I predict the Liberals will win all three, they will have 174 seats, meaning a majority plus two seats.

And of course the Liberals say they will be looking bring more floor crossers.

Gladu once denounced the person that she is now…

Way back in the day, way back when, like all the way back in January, Marylin Gladu was going around saying that floor crossers should have to face the voters before being allowed to change parties. This wasn’t a view held in her youth, many years ago or even a year ago, it was what she told her local media outlets less than three months ago.

Here are her comments published by the Independent on January 11, 2026.

“Really, the whole point of being an MP is to represent your constituents. So, if they’re voting you in under one platform, for you to switch for whatever reasons, just seems to me to not be representing what you’re supposed to be there to represent. We elected you under this banner, and if you don’t want to be under that banner, then we deserve a chance to have a redo.”

Oh well, the folly of youth I suppose!

Now, a year ago, she had plenty to say about Mark Carney and it wasn’t nice.

All of that is water under the bridge, Gladu is a Liberal now.

That oh so very weird book…

In November 2020, Gladu self-published her book Tales from the Globe Trot. It told her story of being a single, female business executive and then MP travelling the world on her own.

The book is awkward and poorly written.

Back in 2021 Liberals and others in Ottawa were pitching it around due to the weird content. In the middle of a global pandemic where lockdowns, vaccines and mandates were dominating the news, this book didn’t matter much.

Now that she’s joined the Liberals, it’s worth looking at the text to see how she fits in with her new team.

In this section, Gladu writes about hanging out with a guy in a Thai brothel filled with 14 year-old hookers.

Here, Gladu comments on the body of a 17 year-old daughter of a friend.

Gladu also wrote about meeting, and then going on a date with a “burly black man” with really white teeth named Issac Washington.

Not many MPs will admit to drunk driving without being charged but Gladu did.

As early as 26, Gladu had resigned herself to spinsterhood. She wrote about being so desperate that she was even willing to date, (gasp) a guy with a Jewish sounding name. Like I said, this book is weird.

Gladu may help Mark Carney secure a bigger majority than expected but this former Conservative leadership hopeful, freedom caucus champion, vaccine mandate opponent and so-con pro-lifer is an odd fit for the Liberal caucus.

Perhaps the thing she has in common with Carney and all Liberals is that apparently, she is quite flexible about her principles if power is on the line.