With his first mandate stewarding the fortunes of Canada largely in his wake, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberals are fully engaged in political self-preservation.
And you can’t blame them, as Trudeau has stumbled repeatedly and badly.
Just weeks ago, a popular newspaper columnist suggested senior Liberals were already casting about for Trudeau’s replacement should his record convince voters nationally they’d had enough.
Enough of a prime minister who, in a clear act of political desperation, shoved his former attorney general and national minister of justice into enforced silence. This, after Jody Wilson-Raybould informed Canadians there is more to share than she has already while testifying before the parliamentary justice committee about unrelenting pressure from senior PMO staffers to directly dissuade independent federal prosecutors from proceeding with criminal charges against Quebec firm SNC-Lavalin.
Wilson-Raybould had by then already been shuffled out of her attorney general portfolio and would find herself shoved all the way out of the Liberal caucus, along with her former federal Minister of Health and Treasury Board president Jane Philpott, who couldn’t quite stomach Trudeau’s actions and stated so publicly.
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