Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: ↑
I'd go with the entire media establishment going crazy, but that's just me...
You may be a Ligurian, but you can very probably see an issue with our national news at the moment.
1. Giant Quebec construction company allegedly offers bribes to win contracts in Libya.
2. This is noticed, and is against all sorts of rules.
3. Prosecution is initiated in Canada, since we have some of those rules.
4. Prime Minister who fails to understand most things, and especially that he cannot legally shield Quebecois companies from illegal behaviour, suggests/implies/hints/tells/orders/commands -any verb other than "directs" - the Attorney General of Canada to get the Crown Prosecution Service to lay off said large Quebecois construction company, and send the case to a non-criminal remedial justice arrangement.
5.
This bit is imagined, but I and every other Canadian assumes the Attorney General said "No, I can't do that."
6. Attorney General is fired, and demoted to Minister of Veterans Affairs. We all know by now that Canada hates its veterans.
7. The Globe & Mail gets leaks from the Prime Minister's Office that dirty business is afoot and publishes articles to the effect of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 above.
8. Prime Minister says repeatedly he did not "direct" the Attorney General to go easy on large Quebecois company. Other verbs (suggests/implies/hints/tells/orders/commands) are still on the table. Also, the fact that the demoted Attorney General is still in cabinet is a sign that all of this is false.
9.
This bit is also assumed: ex-Attorney General is asked to back up the Prime Minister, but feels she cannot do so.
10. Ex-Attorney General resigns as Veterans Affairs minister, with a
resignation letter thanking Canadians, but not the PM who appointed her, and talking of her desire to see politics performed differently, which is work that shall and must continue, and that she has hired an ex-Supreme Court Justice to advise her on what she is allowed to say about the solicitor-client privilege implicit in her work as Attorney General.
11. Prime Minister says he can't understand why she resigned, and if there was any pressure on her to do anything improper as Attorney General, she failed in her duties by not bringing that pressure to his attention.
I confess I voted for Trudeau as a way of getting rid of Harper, but would my disgust with Harper be less or more than my disgust with Trudeau four and a half years later? I don't know, but I shall vote this fall for whichever candidate locally will win without being a Trudeau Liberal. I like Bernier, but don't want to split the anti-Trudeau vote, so it will probably be Scheer, despite his repulsive lizard nature. Perhaps it's ridiculous, but I've voted for members from the NDP on the left to the Conservatives on the right (Labour, SDP and Maggie's Tories in the UK too!) simply to get rid of a government. I suspect it makes more sense to vote to be rid of a government than to vote for the one you want; you know who and what you are voting out. Those you vote in are only promises that may or may not materialise.
TL;DR: Trudeau is a shit. Just like his dad.