Image of the Week (retrospective edition): A photo taken the moment the PM gave Jody Wilson-Raybould her 'dream job' captured the sense of promise around the new government in 2015. Now it speaks only of loss.
Joy. Gratitude. Surprise. Even disbelief. Jody Wilson-Raybould’s face communicates multitudes in this Oct. 29, 2015 photograph taken by Justin Trudeau’s omnipresent photographer Adam Scotti. It’s part of #first100days, a curated collection of hope-filled imagery capturing a new government in transition. In the background, the architects: Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, and principal secretary, Gerald Butts.
But as the first Indigenous person overseeing national justice, Wilson-Raybould, more than any other Trudeau cabinet minister, embodied the Real Change mantra. What more powerful, emotionally charged, change-is-finally-here signal could the government make? What better proof of its claim that Canada’s “most important” relationship is with Indigenous peoples? Not even four years later, the photograph exists as a poignant “before”—before a Jan.
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