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Trudeau was pretty much put in an impossible situation here. Whether he kept his mouth shut, or whether he said soomething people would find a reason to criticize him over this.
Personally, I think he did about the best he ould. Would've been better if the 2 MPs were dealt eith more quietly, but I'm not sure if that would\ve been possible considering the shocking lack of any kind of official protocol for this kind of thing.
If I had a conspiratorial type of mind, I might suspect that NDP was trying to set him up for a scandal of some type. Perhaps if he'd kept his mouth shut as the accuser asked him to, he would've been slammed in a month or so for not saying anything...
Yea, announcements from Mulcair have shown that.
When I first heard this, my initial reaction was "not again". Ever since the 2004 election, we've had someone make a spurious allegation against one or more Liberal candidates, and trick the Liberal leader into revoking their nomination. Leslie Hughes struck close to home for me. Her riding is beside mine. When that riding was created several years ago, chunks were carved off 3 other ridings. One was mine. Leslie's campaign headquarters was in a small shopping mall that used to be part of my riding, and where I still shop. Although I've never met Leslie herself, I knew her campaign manager for years before the election, and stay in contact today. And Leslie's incident was the same year that my incident occurred. A full retraction was published in the Globe & Mail, but how many people read that? I know one voter who does not belong to any political party, and said he read the retraction. One voter.
Yet another case where other political parties or their proxies have made spurious allegations. Western legal system, including Canada, has a strong principle: "Innocent until proven guilty". But political candidates have been treated guilty until proven innocent. That just begs for abuse. Other political entities will make spurious or slanderous accusations against Liberal candidates just to prevent them from running.
But then we heard what Tom Mulcair said. Criticising Trudeau for making it public. Uh, huh. So Mulcair intended to hold this over Trudeau, and the Liberal candidates involved. He intended to use this to cancel those candidate's nomination. Well, their nomination is cancelled. For now. But there's enough time to clear this incident before the election, so those candidates can return to Caucus, and stand for re-election.
By the way; one point of rhetoric is that there's no process to deal with this. But there is. Any MP can stand in the House of Commons and raise of Point of Privilege. To clearly state the offence made. That empowers the Speaker to rule on the matter. That process was set in place as part of Canada's original constitution. But for some reason the accusers don't want the details made clear. In fact they don't want us to know who is making the accusation. That sounds highly suspicious.
So unfortunately, Mr. Trudeau's actions were necessary. He forced this issue to be dealt with promptly. Now let's find out exactly what happened.
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