“Even if she wasn’t my daughter, I’d be proud:” Bill Wilson
Bill Wilson expects his daughter to face the difficult decisions she must face in the days ahead with the same “calm eloquence” she showed during her testimony before the Commons justice committee this week.
“I had no doubt whatsoever that one of my daughters would hold high office,” he told Postmedia. “ when the time came, I think she was dismissed as an Indian and as a woman … They thought they could push her around.” Bill Wilson also noted the irony of an Indigenous woman “protecting” Canadian law, which has at times been used to harm First Nations people. Wilson-Raybould’s father said he doesn’t know if she’ll remain in the Liberal caucus.Wilson said he doesn’t believe the other parties are an option for his daughter, but she could decide to sit as an independent.
“There is no denying that there is pressure to do well in these jobs, pressure to get it right, because the decisions that we make, they have significant impacts in the lives of Canadians and people around the world,” she said. “The kinds of communications that Jody talked about in her statement between ministers and between staff of ministers is natural and normal.”
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