Rex Murphy: His forensic lacerations of Justin Trudeau on the few occasions when a mostly absentee prime minister dared the ordeal, were top quality demolitions. In every exchange, and they are all there for the viewing, it was clear who was the austere teacher, and who was the stammering tyro.
Poilievre’s press briefings had to be the dread of the wizards who practice spin for Trudeau. Their spin was unspun, and the tangled amateur “explanations” given out by the government about how Trudeau, finance minister Bill Morneau and Youth Minister Bardish Chagger variously locked arms and fired (email) billet-doux back and forth, were both derided and destroyed.
His masterpiece was the very latest, where he flung, with magisterial scorn, blacked-out page after blacked-out page of the government’s file on WE Inc., over the press podium. Most telling was his central point during that conference: that the government wasn’t “proroguing” to work on a “reset” or devise a post-COVID “agenda.” It was prorogued to shut down the committees, one of which Poilievre headed, looking into the WE affair. It was prorogued to halt the revelations hidden and obscured under black ink that the government lathered over the documents released.
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