The (spectacularly failed) Government of Justin Trudeau

"The trust that previously existed between these two individuals and our team has been broken."
"Whether it's taping conversations without consent, or repeatedly expressing a lack of confidence in our government and in me personally as leader, it's become clear that Ms. Wilson-Raybould and Dr. Philpott can no longer remain part of our Liberal team."
"[Extending] patience and understanding [with the former Justice Minister's complaints and that of the former Treasury Board head failed, leaving no option but to eject them to avoid a] civil war."
"Civil wars within parties are incredibly damaging because they signal to Canadians that we care more about ourselves than we do about them."
"We've taken every effort to address their concerns, and ultimately, if they can't honestly say that they have confidence in this team ... then they cannot be part of this team."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

The Canadian Press

"What I can say is that I hold my head high and that I can look myself in the mirror knowing I did what I was required to do and what needed to be done based on principles and values that must always transcend party.
"[No regrets, I] spoke the truth as I will continue to do."
"Now I know many of you [members of Liberal caucus] are angry, hurt and frustrated. And frankly so am I, and I can only speak for myself."
"I am angry, hurt and frustrated because I feel and believe I was upholding the values that we all committed to."
"We committed to break old and cynical patterns of concentrating power in the hands of a few unelected staffers. I believed we were going to uphold the highest standards that support the public interest and not simply make choices to create partisan advantage."
"In giving the advice I did, and taking the steps I did, I was trying to help protect the prime minister and the government from a horrible mess. I am not the one who tried to interfere in sensitive proceedings. I am not the one who made it public, and I am not the one who publicly denied what happened. But I am not going to go over all of the details here again. Enough has been said."
Jody Wilson Raybould, former Minister of Justice

Dr. Jane Philpott (left), Jody Wilson-Raybould (right) still from video

Team players, according to the Liberal playbook, do not go out of their way out of an insignificant sense of moral outrage to bring calumny down on the party and the leader they must support as an integral part of caucus. When the government decides to err on the side of caution in preserving Canadian jobs -- a critical issue with this government -- and to achieve that end, chooses to intervene in a prosecution's decision to proceed with criminal proceedings on charges of corruption against a signal Canadian industry, the government reserves the right to step in.

The justice system must not be taken lightly, certainly that's true, but the higher calling of this prime minister motivated him to preserve the opportunities available to SNC-Lavalin to continue to provide employment for 9,000 Canadians by helping the engineering-construction firm avoid a criminal conviction. There cannot possibly be anything amiss in the effort to preserve jobs, now can there? A Quebec corporation that has funneled altruistically over a hundred thousand dollars to the federal Liberals....?

There are not enough words to express how grateful Canadians should be to this prime minister for shunting away scruples over political interference in the justice system of the country in the far greater interests of preserving jobs for ordinary Canadians. That would be the ordinary Canadians who now lament the hundreds of thousands of energy industry jobs that have disappeared resulting from this same government's intention to cap the industry in the interests of the prime minister's environmental portfolio, costing Canada's export potential billions in trade profits.

But you've got to look at the matter from the perspective of the prime minister: "If a politician secretly records a conversation with anyone, it's wrong. When that politician is a cabinet minister secretly recording a public servant, it's wrong. And when that cabinet minister is the attorney general of Canada, secretly recording the clerk of the Privy Council, it's unconscionable". So there you have it, the cabinet minister subjected to a barrage of interfering objections for her failure to instruct the public prosecutor to offer a remediation agreement to SNC-Lavalin to spare it from a criminal trial where defending her decision represents a reprehensible gambit.

The prime minister who instructed his lapdogs from the Minister of Finance on down to the elite staff at the PMO to harass the Minister of Justice to subvert justice is blameless. We know that to be so because the prime minister insists it to be. Just as he insisted that Jody Wilson-Raybould failed to communicate to him her unease at the constant interference, when she did just that repeatedly. The cabal around the prime minister set out on a none-too-subtle defamation campaign to undermine the credibility of the former Minister of Justice, but that's just politics, Liberal-style.

The audio recording which Wilson-Rayboult released to the Justice Committee revealed nothing that her previous testimony before the committee did not detail precisely. This was her back-up when the Clerk of the Privy Council chose to leave the impression that what the former Minister of Justice recounted between them; content, attitude, warning, might not have been as her description implied. He spoke with the authority vested in him by the prime minister not only to broach the subject, continue pressuring her, and warning her there would be consequences, and then denying it.

These are the consequences, a leader revealed for what he truly is, a mendacious egotist incapable of governing, and a political party for which such unscrupulous conduct reflects its values. The failure that is Justin Trudeau heaping fault on everyone, evading his responsibility like the hollow man that he truly is; inept, demanding, vainglorious and unremittingly vengeful when crossed.

#DaughtersoftheVote2019 PM Trudeau addresses DOTV Assembly as several young women turn their backs to him. He speaks about the need to listen to each other to understand POV. Nothing black and white in situations like JWR