I’m sorry, Mr. Ma, but it makes you look a little flaky to be elected to the House of Commons for the first time in April, then in December to switch parties from the Conservatives to the Liberals.

Yet that’s exactly what Ontario MP Michael Ma did on Thursday. After being elected as a rookie Conservative in the riding of Markham-Unionville not quite eight months ago, Ma decided to flip allegiances.

Didn’t he know it was possible to run as a Liberal?

Or maybe he just wanted two Christmas parties. Ma went to the Conservative caucus’s Christmas party on Wednesday, then switched parties in time to live it up at the Liberal shindig on Thursday.

However, in one important way, Ma’s defection to the governing Liberals was a bigger blow to the Conservative party than the floor crossing by Nova

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