>>5460510 pb (continuing account re previous notable)
highlights, emergency debate, Canada's Justice scandal, continued …
There is a very complicated reference made in the debate. It is to the issue of child abuse in residential schools. I do not have the time to go into the detail here and now. But the key is that the former AG is an established aboriginal (i.e. Indian) leader who entered Parliament with a mission on that portfolio but was stymied by the Liberal government. That is an important context in which to consider her stand on this other scandal. The PM had pushed her too far and, frankly, as a bumbling politico he made a mess of something he supposedly – at least in election campaign rhetoric – had made a yuge part of his appeal to the Indian vote. In many ridings around the country, it was the Indian vote that won Trudeau's Liberals the majority they needed to become the Government in the last election.
The former AG helped with that presentation during the election campaign. She gave it credibility.
The former AG was betrayed, to be blunt about it. Now, whether or not one agrees with her stand on what is known as the aboriginal framework, it is readily apparent that Trudeau has been an utter failure as a politician – a corrupt one at that. Most rough hand politicos in Canada would have gotten away with this. But he is so inept he crashed and burned.
And the cost will be paid by the rest of the Liberal Party under him.
For most Anons the name of the former AG is Jody Wilson-Raybould. I'll just call her JWR in future posts. Her father was the previous generations aboriginal voice during the constitutional crisis that occurred during the government of Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Her father stood up against Trudeau then, just as his daughter is standing up against Trudeau's son today.
As others have said, I disagree with both JWR and her father's group identity politics and leftish leanings. They are prolly moar left than PM Trudeau on just about everything. But I am astonished by her guts in defending the rule of law. I think it will come out that she had been less gutsy on other cases but the case of SNC-Lavalin was the last straw. She had been humiliated both politically and professional – behind closed doors.
moar highlights in a bit…