It was just one more perfectly predictable, almost perfectly staged, extended selfie in the life of official Ottawa. Earlier Tuesday, the Liberal-dominated Commons justice committee did what its Liberal members had telegraphed they would do the night before the meeting in a letter — shut down its purported “review” of the SNC-Lavalin imbroglio. If not a surprise, this was covered with such a shine of stupendous duplicity it was dazzling. The Liberal letter also sang the praises, ala the PM, of the government having waived cabinet confidence and solicitor-client privilege so Wilson-Raybould could freely testify. She also talked about how the SNC-Lavalin business has “been a wake-up call for many across the country.

Source: National Post March 19, 2019 23:26 UTC