Justin Trudeau’s refusal to call off the dogs that were pressing Jody-Wilson-Raybould betrayed the image he’d worked so hard to craft
Of all the words written or spoken about the crisis devouring the Trudeau government, perhaps the most enlightening were the foolish remarks offered by Jati Sidhu, a Liberal member from British Columbia.
John Dean, the famed Watergate figure, wrote last week that he first met the real Richard Nixon when he informed the president — who he served as White House counsel — that there was a cancer on his presidency. He wanted the president to end the coverup that threatened to destroy him: to stop the lies, the deceit, the attacks on opponents. Nixon, of course, rejected his advice, and we know the rest of the story.
That’s when the real Trudeau showed himself. It wasn’t the Trudeau who’d embraced her the day she was sworn in as minister of justice and attorney-general, as she cupped his head in her hands and they gazed emotionally into one another’s eyes. That had been a special moment, one built for the cameras. It had obviously meant a great deal to her, and likely to him as well, though perhaps not for the same reasons.
Trudeau’s refusal to call off the dogs that were pressing her to enable the rescue attempt on SNC-Lavalin betrayed the image he’d worked so hard to craft. Though he’d promised to award half the seats in his cabinet to women, and had kept his promise, it was the men who now pushed her to play along. Powerful, important men. The finance minister, the Clerk of the Privy Council, Trudeau’s principle secretary, the prime minister himself, and those minions in his office who were at his command.
He cited Wernick asserting that “the job of being a cabinet minister is pressure. That’s what the job is.” When asked what the clerk meant when he said Trudeau was determined to rescue Lavalin one way or another, Boissonnault suddenly remembered he wasn’t in the room at the time and couldn’t comment. “What I can say is that he was very clear that neither the prime minister or the clerk ever directed her to go into a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin.
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