Tom Mulcair: Trudeau's election inquiry dilemma. Does he stay or does he go?
Now that David Johnston has stepped down, the serious work of putting in place a commission of inquiry can begin.
The opposition parties appeared somewhat reticent to assume their new role and pleaded that the government was best placed to vet and propose names. In the same breath, they summoned the Liberals to quit stalling and call the inquiry right away! The timing of the announcement by LeBlanc is interesting. The Liberals had hoped to use Johnston to rag the puck until late October on the largely useless second phase of his mandate. That way, if the pressure continued for a full inquiry, it would happen too late to interfere with possible election plans.Now, they don’t have even that fig leaf but election timing is still top of mind for the Big Red Machine.
Past statements by his closest adviser, Katie Telford may come back to haunt him. Almost as a matter of reflex, those around him always take great pains to try and create the image of Trudeau as being diligent and studious, which is not always not always an easy task.
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