The pundits, however, haven’t failed to acknowledge the prime minister’s fall from grace in columns such as ‘Trudeau: And God became man’
OTTAWA — There remains such a divide between francophone and anglophone media coverage of the ongoing SNC-Lavalin controversy that one Quebec headline Thursday morning read: “Justin and the two solitudes.”
In Quebec, those questions are balanced by arguments about whether Wilson-Raybould was wrong to decide against the remediation agreement in the first place, given the thousands of Quebec workers who could be affected by a criminal conviction for the company.
“Where’s the corruption, here?” asked La Presse Thursday morning, in a column by Yves Boisvert. On the basis of Drouin’s testimony about the functioning of the justice department, he concluded the rule of law in this country remains healthy.
Pundits haven’t failed to acknowledge the prime minister’s fall from grace, however. A Journal column titled “Trudeau: And God became man” begins with the supposition that if everybody keeps telling you you can walk on water, you’ll probably start to believe it. Richard Martineau put it this way: “He thought he was indestructible, now he realizes he’s only a human being like the others. Goodbye Superman, hello Clark Kent.
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