Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Andrew Coyne (National Post) Says It All: With Changes to House Rules, What Path are the Liberals On?

From Andrew Coyne at the National Post, an article that is on the verbose side but is a necessary read. The  last paragraph will raise eyebrows (see below).

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-renewed-attempt-to-rewrite-house-rules-shows-liberals-are-not-to-be-trusted&pubdate=2017-03-28

"...If all this sounds unduly suspicious, recall that there is a context to this. After the prime minister’s insouciant refusal to admit fault in the matter of the cash-for-access fundraisers, after the charade of “open nominations” in ridings that had clearly been fixed to suit the prime minister’s preferences, after the elaborate fraud that was Senate reform, after all the broken promises on everything from the combat mission against ISIL to the open bidding on the CF-18 replacement to — sigh — electoral reform, the Trudeau government has earned no benefit of the doubt. Whatever short-term advantage these and other ruses may have yielded them, they came with a price, and that price is very simple: as they are not to be trusted, so they are not, in fact, trusted..."

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