What if Stephen Harper had done it?
It’s the question principled Liberals ought to be asking on SNC-Lavalin, but aren’t. And the Liberals are avoiding it because they know what the answer to that question would be, and they don’t like what it would say about Justin Trudeau’s conduct.
Of coursethe Liberals would be braying for Harper’s head had he done something comparable, say, for a large oil & gas multinational headquartered in Calgary. Following a multi-year lobbying campaign. By a company that had previously donated bags full of money to the Conservatives. Are you kidding? We’d never hear the end of their outrage.
And yet most of the Liberal caucus remains quiet as a mouse over Trudeau and the conduct of his office, even following the spectacular resignations of Gerry Butts, Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, and the very public mutinies of backbench MPs Wayne Long and Celina Caesar-Chavannes. Think the Liberals would have cared if Jason Kenney and Lisa Raitt had resigned from Cabinet on principle over a scandal?
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