In order to believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s version of his dispute with his former attorney general, you have to accept that an astonishing series of missteps, misunderstandings and lost opportunities were entirely innocent. But there’s even more to digestThere are Liberals out there who insist they can buy the whole package, that accept Trudeau’s bland assurances over the minister’s detailed evidence. Such as when he elbowed his way across the Commons to berate a member of the opposition. “I am not under any illusion how the prime minister … gets things that he wants,” she tells Wernick in their recorded phone call. Maybe it’s possible that the prime minister really was caught off guard, that his aides and advisers failed to bring the danger to his attention.

Source: National Post April 01, 2019 13:41 UTC