McParland: The Aga Khan trip. Election reform. The India costume parade. SNC-Lavalin. Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott. The Kielburger brothers and the WE fiasco. Blackface. Vaccine rollout. Julie Payette. It’s not even necessary to provide details; they’re so familiar people recognize them in shorthand. It raises the question of how much the prime minister thinks before he acts.
It’s never Trudeau’s fault. The response to Wilson-Raybould’s complaints as attorney general was a leaked trashing in the media. Election reform was the fault of voters who didn’t support his preferred option. WE resulted from a hostile opposition and carnivorous media out for blood. Twice ruled guilty of ethics violations, he only sulkily accepted the results. When complaints about Payette first surfaced he insisted she was an “excellent” governor general.
Yet surveys suggest voters remain willing to re-elect the Liberals, possibly with a majority. How is it that Canadians remain so blithely tolerant of such an error-prone, stumble-footed government?
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