Nothing will be the same again for Trudeau. The spell has been broken and the idea that he could be a one-term wonder is no longer implausible
The Liberal Party’s impulse to form a circular firing squad has created a moment in Canada’s political history that could change everything.
The mood inside the Prime Minister’s Office was said to be serene, with Trudeau aware of the gravity of a situation turned dramatically worse with the resignation of Treasury Board President Jane Philpott on Monday. He needs to extricate himself from a sticky situation that his own sense of denial and adherence to bland talking points has landed him in. His options to be proactive are limited, but they exist.
The public mood may get worse before it gets better. Editorial cartoonists have portrayed Wilson-Raybould as Tank Man, the Chinese student who stood in front of a column of tanks during the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. Wernick will face an even trickier task, as he attempts to reconcile his previous testimony at the justice committee with that of Wilson-Raybould. He said he told Wilson-Raybould the prime minister was “anxious” about the SNC-Lavalin situation, but that their interactions were within the boundaries of what is legal and appropriate, and that he was merely informing the minister of context.
Still, Butts and Wernick are going to have to be persuasive if they are going to sway public opinion from the former justice minister’s narrative, which many Canadians have taken as gospel.
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