For the past three weeks the heritage minister has been the public face of a fiasco of her government’s own making. Except that if she is walking wounded today, it is, in no small part, the result of the nonchalance of the prime minister. By appointing a just-retired Ontario Liberal to a job that, by definition, calls for independence from the government the prime minister was breaking with tradition. As it happens, the prime minister poisoned the well of his rookie House leader. Joly, Chagger, Monsef and Gould are part of the younger female tier of Trudeau’s cabinet and of a new promising wave of Canadian politicians.

Source: thestar June 09, 2017 20:37 UTC