Paul Wells: In all of Trudeau's behaviour since the election it's hard not to notice a habit of mind and a pattern of behaviour
features MPs touchingly blaming “the leadership” for their ostracism, which is what MPs do when they’re too timid to blame the leader. Who hires the leadership?) Of course, the articles I’ve linked also feature MPs explaining why they would never complain to the boss in front of their caucus colleagues. “The leadership” doesn’t like that sort of thing, apparently. What’s the word for people who complain that a situation is intolerable even as they prepare to tolerate it? “Sources,” I suppose.
In January 2021 he came to his second cabinet post, after Transport, with the usual vapid hype from “the leadership” and the usual low expectations from the boss. Trudeau’sto Garneau was like Trudeau’s letters to Garneau’s three predecessors in that it did not contain the word “China.” It was unique in that, of the six files the letter did mention, not a single one invited Garneau to take individual initiative. He was to “work with me and in close collaboration with other ministers” on Canada-U.
Also cooling its heels: Parliament. Five weeks lapsed between the election and last week’s cabinet ceremony. That’s the longest such delay in 21 years; cabinets are usually sworn in two weeks after an election. It will be almost another month before Parliament meets for a Throne Speech. That two-month total delay between election and Parliament is the longest in 15 years.
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