Today, readers are responding to a Globe survey of Liberal MPs. For the second time in the past week, The Globe and Mail contacted every Liberal MP, excluding the Prime Minister, as a part of a survey about the government’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair. Out of 179 Liberal MPs, more than 50 replied to The Globe’s questions and expressed support for Justin Trudeau.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in an armchair discussion at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention in Toronto on Tuesday, March 5, 2019.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press
What a clear case of the “end justifying the means.” Of course they are all interested in all of the progressive issues as well as transparency, democracy and doing politics differently, as long as they can be re-elected. Sucks to be a voter that supported them in 2015, but cheer up, they will try to do better in 2019.
Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould stated that she was proud of the government's accomplishments on climate change, inclusion and the "future of our children" (whatever that means). Glaringly, she did not say that she was proud of the government's accomplishments regarding democratic institutions.
Our parents taught us, and the silent MP's, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." 129 out of 179 Liberal MPs apparently had nothing nice to say.
I guess you could call it a ship of fools. They have taken no gauge of the public's perception of what just happened.
I think we should all stand tall and proud behind our leader who's kept us safe and confident to call ourselves Canadians. There are no reasons to over exaggerate the situation as he has not committed any major fouls, lets just take a look to the leader down south. We must be kidding ourselves when we think such a small misunderstanding is anything to be working ourselves up about. The man is our Prime Minister, let's treat him as such. Everyone should take up a hobby or go find a way to relax, in the age of anger and political correctness, last thing we need is to take away our leader's confidence to do his job.
I agree with you! This hasn't been an easy time to be Prime Minister, considering the leader down south. PM Trudeau has maintained his dignity throughout some challenging interactions and has been diplomatic. I am very pleased at how dignified he's been throughout Trump's time in office. I don't know how a man with a young family can do this job without a huge amount of support from his party, his colleagues in Cabinet and all Liberals. Sometimes I think it's a pretty thankless job all-in-all.
I spoke to my MP this evening and got the talking points from him, also. He insisted that I wait until Gerald Butts gives his testimony and that jobs, pensions, etc. are important. There was no answer when I asked how far the government will go to save votes in Quebec. The fix is in the hopes that Mr. Butts, the Clerk etc. will succeed in eroding the credibility of the former attorney general. What has this country come to when we can not admit that we made a mistake and accept responsibility? Are these the kind of politicians that we want to elect to run our country? I think not.
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