Globe editorial: Justin Trudeau is in peril unless he can rebut SNC allegations GlobeDebate
If the Trudeau government has any hope of seeing the back of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, it has to put its full version of the story, all of it, in front of the Canadian people.Perfunctory denials won’t do. The allegations made by former justice minister and attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould are too serious. That the allegations go to the very top, and come from one of the government’s most senior members, makes them unprecedented.
The irony and tragedy of it all is that, until three weeks ago, the Liberals were cruising to re-election. The reasons, obvious to everyone, may have been less plain to them. But Liberal policies, combined with a bit of luck in terms of the poor state of the opposition and the good state of the global economy, were what stood behind the cakewalk re-election that might have been. The group that Mr. Trudeau always claims to be all about – “the middle class and those working hard to join it” – has mostly had a pretty decent run these past few years.For example, on Tuesday, Statistics Canada revealed that the country’s child-poverty rate fell, again.
The high road was Mr. Trudeau’s straightest route to the desired destination of re-election. If he and his senior officials have detoured from it, they may have put their futures in jeopardy.
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