There were myriad possible permutations for a shuffle that wouldn’t involve savagely demoting Canada’s first female Indigenous justice minister, whose performance the prime minister was supposedly …
They needed a cabinet minister from Nova Scotia, you see. In Gerald Butts’ telling, that was the genesis of this whole crazy mess — and the reason various Liberals, including Butts on Wednesday, keep insisting that Jody Wilson-Raybould would still be Minister of Justice and Attorney General had the former Treasury Board President Scott Brison, who represents the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants, not decided to retire.
“The prime minister spends a lot of his on Indigenous issues. A lot. He cares about the relationship deeply. He was preoccupied with the fact we had the child and family services legislation coming up. He thought it would be one of the most important bills that the government would pass. “In the span of a few months, we would go from holding all 11 seats in Nova Scotia with strong incumbents to having five of them open in the next election.”
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