High priestesses of Liberal Church attack Heretics Wilson-Raybould and Philpott

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Apr 2019

The Liberal party has been a crypto-religion for nearly a century, going back to the days of McKenzie-King.  Shiela Copps and Marie Boutrogianni were high priestesses of that church.  They remain committed adherents who view the threats to Liberal party power by Jody Wilson-Raybould and June Philpott as the evil doings of heretics.  Nowadays, heretics aren’t burnt at the stake, but apostates are still driven out of the church and into a cold world alone and without patronage.

There is a big mistake being made in this saga concerning prosecutorial independence.  There is no such “constitutional principle” in Canada.  The principle is of judicial independence, which has been respected in the SNC-Lavalin affair.  If you want to know the principle of power of a cabinet official, you only have to look at the power of the UK Home Secretary.  The Attorney-General is highest prosecutor in the land, and she is a cabinet officer and a political figure along the lines of the Home Secretary.  The lawyers who insinuate that it is improper for the A-G to step in on an important matter of prosecution are full of it – they are saying that their little fiefdom shouldn’t be supervised by their constitutional supervisor.  I get that they want to run their shop their way, but they’re wrong, if not abusive of their own powers in offering this false advice..  And the Clerk of the Privy Council was absolutely right in his advice to Wilson-Raybould.  If there is a principle at stake, it is the use of A-G powers for corrupt purposes, which is not at issue here.  What the dispute is about is the form that the prosecution will take.

What we have here is a bureaucrat-prosecutor who is politically tone-deaf, and this example is why important matters such as the SNC affair ultimately get decided at the cabinet level.

What is being missed is that Wilson-Raybould is an aboriginal.  Aboriginals are biased against pure laine Quebeckers, because pure laine Quebeckers think of themselves as practically aboriginal. They hold no brief for the claims of aboriginals.  The Phase II of the James Bay hydro-electric project is a case in point.  In SNC, Wilson-Raybould found a prosecutor who was going to destroy a “signature” Quebec company, and she was going to let that congenial thing happen.  Hence, all the (bogus) talk about how inappropriate it was to interfere.  She was running interference for her guy.

The fact that Wilson-Raybould recorded a conversation with the Clerk gets into the realm of espionage, and I’m surprised no one has clued into that point yet.

As for Justin saying falsely that he was going to “do politics differently.”  He was deluding himself, but we’re the bigger fools for believing him.  He is a Liberal and a Trudeau, and a progressive – what more do you need to know about that promise and the source of that self-delusion?.
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