Damage was done in both cases, certainly in the long term, but neither prime minister seemed overly concerned with keeping the departed minister in the fold. But when you think about it, the prime minister is handling them the same way, which is probably a mistake. This confident streak — maybe overconfident streak — is at the nub of the Wilson-Raybould saga now. Nothing in this nearly three-week-old saga over Wilson-Raybould and SNC-Lavalin gives any indication of following that pattern. Trudeau and his government aren’t leading themselves out of the controversy — they’re following and reacting — and Wilson-Raybould is doing the leading.

Source: thestar February 25, 2019 23:29 UTC