Charade?

Paul McRae represented Fort William riding in Ontario for over a decade. After his first win, he sold his house in Thunder Bay, and lived in Ottawa - was open about it, and talked about it in the newspapers. He won two subsequent elections, not living in the riding..

(This is not to justify Duffy, etc ) This points out that for the most part, the MP is a proxy for the mood of the populace.

If Markham is happy with a Federal Liberal government, it doesn't matter who the MP is, or even if they don't live in the riding, or visit it more than a couple times a year...

Not good. Not at all, but it is what politics in Canada has evolved to...