Although the Department of Justice has lots of legal advice immediately at hand, the prime minister tried to persuade her to hire a lawyer to give her further legal advice in an attempt to find a solution to the standoff between them. Independent MPs Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould vote in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. And that explains why she didn’t want, and never accepted, that offer of legal advice. Harper passed these minimum penalties everywhere: he didn’t trust judges to do what’s right. Wilson-Raybould blamed such minimum penalties for causing trial delays and said on Feb. 11, 2017, that “wholesale change” was coming “in the very near future.” Not true.

Source: thestar April 12, 2019 10:30 UTC