Will the Prime Minister regret naming the former conservative radio host to the upper chamber?
Jaws dropped in Ottawa when then-Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper named long-time press-gallery gadfly Mike Duffy to the Senate in 2008. In the twilight of his journalistic career, the colourful Mr. Duffy was known for vehiculating conservative talking points. He was a “big name” in small-town Canada and popular among Conservative MPs.
In opposition, Justin Trudeau seized on the scandal to promise a non-partisan process for naming senators and kicked sitting Liberal senators out of his party’s caucus. He promised merit-based Senate appointments, made on the advice of an independent advisory committee, to rehabilitate an institution mired in patronage and lethargy.– than any prime minister except William Lyon Mackenzie King and John A. Macdonald .
Despite Ms. Muggli’s partisan affiliations, it is Mr. Adler’s nomination that most undermines Mr. Trudeau’s claim to making only non-partisan, merit-based appointments. Ms. Muggli is a career social worker with a long history of community engagement. She ran in the 2015 and 2019 federal elections in a Saskatoon riding the Liberals had little chance of winning.
The same year, Mr. Adler repudiated Mr. Harper’s Conservatives over its promise to create a “barbaric cultural practices” hotline. Lately, he has become one of the current Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s fiercest critics. He accuses him of being a phony, which I suspect eats at the Tory Leader more than any Liberal barb.
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