NP View: Despite the WE scandal, we\u0027re stuck with Trudeau and Morneau
The prime minister obviously has what the former ethics commissioner charitably described as a “blind spot” about conflicts of interest. And the finance minister, the man Canadians are being asked to entrust with the greatest economic crisis in recent history, clearly lacks an eye for detail.Article content continued
To adapt an old saying to our modern reality, Morneau is clearly not a man who believes that if you mind the tens of thousands, and the odd French villa, that the hundreds of billions of rushed, barely overseen deficit-financed spending will take care of themselves. Alas, Canadians are likely stuck with them. Because no party desires an election mid-emergency, and because the Liberals, despite all their past promises of leading a better, more transparent government for the benefit of the middle class , have clearly given up the last pretense.
The prime minister doesn’t believe the rules apply to him. The finance minister can’t quite seem to recall if he’s broken them or not. But they’ll both stay on the job. These are, after all, as they constantly remind us, unprecedented times. Indeed they are. What would be most unprecedented of all, at least in recent memory, would be the Liberal caucus forcing some accountability on their own leaders. But even in the year 2020, that’s remarkable to believe.
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