The arrangement with the PM resulted from a mutuality of backgrounds, interests, outlooks and connections. In other words, an everyday alliance
What is not rare is the more genteel but still unfair corruption of camaraderie and common interests. The Trudeaus and the Kielburgers evidently like each other, respect each others’ achievements, share common attitudes and goals and believe in the virtue of getting progressive things done. When a need began to be perceived to help out young people unlikely to get summer jobs during a pandemic it was hardly shocking that they somehow managed to find each other .
For a number of years I attended conferences of one kind or another in Ottawa . It always struck me what a friendly little community the ministers, deputy ministers and private-sector government relations people were. Away from the microphones, at least, they were often on a first-name basis. They had all gone to the same schools — except sometimes the minister, who could be from a humbler background, democracy being funny that way. Their kids played in the same hockey leagues.
Often it seemed they were family. Not a literal family. Not a mafia “famiglia.” Not quite a “family compact.” But one thing they clearly had in common: they were all capital-I Insiders. Faced with this stubbornly inbred insider syndrome, you have a choice. You can try to police it by creating internal checks, including arm’s-length audits and full transparency so those in the press who haven’t also become insiders can expose mutually profitable chumminess.
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