Politics Insider for March 8: Trudeau must have lost the 'contrition' memo, follow the tweets, and a simple solution for the Liberals
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Instead Trudeau delivered a non-apology for the ages, writes Anne Kingston, who notes that when pressed to be personally accountable, Trudeau has a tendency to transform things into a ‘teaching’ moment. On this day, it did not work: At one point a reporter specifically asked Trudeau if he was apologizing for anything today—to which he noted, yes, as a matter of fact, he was on his way to Canada’s north to deliver an “Inuit apology.” But he quickly followed that by batting away the apology question. “I continue to say there was no inappropriate pressure.”
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