What did Justin Trudeau expect when he appointed a gender-balanced cabinet? That it would be business as usual? He was wrong.
With 2030 as a goal to reach gender equality, the United Nations has noted that disrupting business as usual is “central to removing structural barriers and ensuring that no woman and no girl is left behind.”Both Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Treasury Board president Jane Philpott were very clear about their reasons for resigning. It’s not because of hurt feelings. It isn’t because they didn’t get their own way and they left in a huff.
They did so even though by convention and by law, the attorney-general has the sole responsibility to make decisions about prosecutions. And, with this particular law, the attorney-general is specifically forbidden to consider political and economic factors. Butts inadvertently underscored that point with his clubby tone at the justice committee hearing. He responded to Conservative Lisa Raitt’s question by first noting they were both born in Cape Breton. He attempted to disarm the NDP’s Murray Rankin with flattery.
She wrote that, “There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them.”Finance Minister Bill Morneau suggested Philpott was motivated by friendship. Jati Sidhu, the Liberal MP for Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon, suggested Wilson-Raybould’s father was “pulling the strings.” Sidhu later apologized.Reporters sought out Wilson-Raybould’s father for comment.
Trudeau needs to apologize first to Wilson-Raybould. Maybe she didn’t take her concerns to him as quickly as she should have. Maybe she didn’t tell him and his office on the date that the SNC-Lavalin decision was made and communicated to the company.
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