Article contentJean Chrétien used to tell his cabinet a folksy allegory that suggests how he would have handled the WE affair. Try refreshing your browser, or John Ivison: Whether Trudeau's testimony worked or not, the winds of change are blowing for Liberals Back to videoReprehensible perhaps but that’s how he survived in politics for 40 years. Justin Trudeau adopted a different approach, agreeing to appear before the House finance committee, while the muck is still moist. No prime minister in my nearly two decades on Parliament Hill has appeared before a House committee (Stephen Harper once testified before a Senate committee on his reform bill). But it is a measure of how much trouble Trudeau’s government is in that he believed only he could come to its deliverance.

Source: National Post July 30, 2020 23:03 UTC