Tuesday, March 26, 2019

What is the JWR/JP et al. game plan?

Three leading pundits agree.  This isn't a scandal based on a principled stand in defence of the rule of law.  The SNC-Lavalin "Scandal" is just an attempted palace coup.  To channel Yoda, Trudeau will will tamp this fire out or he will not.  There is no try.  A key rule of the Westminster system is that if the Prime Minister cannot maintain the confidence of a majority of the house, he must step down.

But what are JWR/JP (and possibly disaffected former Liberal strategists) playing at?  They must have a plan.

But what is it?  Pulling a Doug Ford and replacing the leader just before an election?  Hurting the Liberals so they lose?  But only lose enough so that Scheer forms a short lived minority?  Then a snap Liberal leadership contest where St Jody is coronated and takes down the Conservatives?   Huzzah!  Huzzah!

Perhaps one of these fever dreams scenarios have possessed the Princesses of Principle.  If so, they should read more Burns.  Because such plans gang aft agley.  What if they underestimate the damage done to the Liberal chances in October?  What if Andrew Scheer wins a four year term to run ruin the country because of these shenanigans?

JWR might feel she has the right to lead because she is "born noble" (or some other anti-democratic claptrap).  But noblesse oblige.  How does this game justify the risk of a government that would be detrimental to the First Nations as a whole?Recommend this Post

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