Trudeau’s tough lesson in caucus discipline
This editorial first appeared in the Toronto Star on Sunday April 7, 2019.
As the clock ticked past 50 days of the SNC-Lavalin omnishambles, the endgame finally came into focus when Jody Wilson-Raybould and Dr. Jane Philpott were ejected from the Liberal caucus on Tuesday. With the federal election not just on the horizon but looking like it will be much more closely contested than previously anticipated, it had become impossible for the two MPs to remain.
Since the earliest days of this scandal, almost every observer has agreed that this was the saga’s inevitable conclusion. The only inexplicable part was why on Earth it took so long for the prime minister to figure out what everyone else seemed to know.