The speeches had happened. Those were a matter of record. The question was whether WE had paid for them — whether the prime minister\u0027s close relatives had personally benefited from their affiliation
Actually, no, it’s not the point at all, insists the PMO. In a delightfully tone-deaf statement, the PMO said, in part, “The prime minister’s relatives engage with a variety of organization and support many personal causes of their own accord. What is important to remember here is that this is about a charity supporting students.”
Well, there you have it, Canadians. The important part isn’t the sole-source contract from the federal government, awarded by a cabinet vote the PM admits he did not recuse himself from, to an organization that has belatedly fessed up, after previously denying it, to paying his mom and brother hundreds of thousands of dollars. The important thing for Canadians to remember, the PMO insists, is that the charity was supporting students.
That the PMO is pretending not to understand what the voters will instantly get tells you a lot about how confident they feel going into this latest self-made ethics crisis for Trudeau — a man with something of a habit of finding himself in jams a lot like this one.
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