Politics Insider for April 8: Trudeau sues Scheer who says 'Bring it', what the Liberal blame game is missing, and will Wilson-Raybould be a Green or a Dipper?
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Scheer received the libel notice on Sunday, March 31—two days before Trudeau ejected former cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from his caucus. If Scheer had gone public with the libel threat when the House resumed sitting the next day, as the PMO might have expected, it could have helped set the tone of a Prime Minister taking a strong stance and seizing control of the narrative, followed quickly by the expulsion of two MPs seen as troublemakers within the party.
Blame game: Andrew MacDougall has a word of advice for Liberal supporters cranky over the media attention given to Wilson-Raybould and Philpott since they were ousted from the party last week: “Instead of barking at the doctor for diagnosing the disease the Liberals should instead thank Wilson-Raybould and Philpott for highlighting the pathology. Because there is one person to blame for the eight weeks lost to the oozing SNC-Lavalin scandal: Justin Trudeau.
Vote retention—the proportion of people who voted for a party in 2015 who say they would choose the same party again this fall—is “rock solid” for the Conservatives, at 88 per cent, while the Liberals would retain 58 per cent of their 2015 voters. And that erstwhile Liberal support has been sprinkled relatively equitably between the Conservatives, NDP and Green party. That suggests that the shift is a stampede away, rather than a dash toward any particular tent.
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