Politics Insider for March 4: Trudeau's unwindable fight, Meng sues Canada, and another day another dipper gone
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How would Trudeau fight that? There’s no political opposition research playbook for counterpunching against Wilson-Raybould’s singular challenge. The Prime Minister stuck to the usually reliable jobs, jobs, jobs tack—that he was only worrying about the fate of SNC-Lavalin employees, almost 9,000 of them across Canada. The problem was, Wilson-Raybould freely allowed that pointing out to her the potential job losses if the company suffered was fine.
China is lapping up the SNC controversy. When you’re arguing that the Canadian government plays politics with the country’s justice system, it helps to have Canada’s former justice minister saying the same thing.
The carpet under the NDP exit sign must be getting worn by now. Northern B.C. MP Nathan Cullen is the latest member of the party to announce they won’t campaign for re-election in October. Twelve other NDPers have bowed out, with fellow B.C. NDP MP Murray Rankin saying just a day earlier that he won’t be back either.
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