Can't help thinking that if Chrystia Freeland had stood up for Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott when they were dismissed from political life for having stood up for cabinet government, she might be in better situation today. And us too.
Emmett Macfarlane: "More than electoral reform, perhaps even more than gov't transparency, the idea of 'cabinet government' is possibly the most blatant broken promise of Trudeau's tenure. It's unfathomable that - as reported by ppl like Garneau and JWR - his ministers simply couldn't reach him, barely ever saw him." — Bluesky
We have had a century-long consensus among political scientists, political journalists, and political consultants that a prime minister must be strong, and that it is "democratic' to choose party leaders by an extra-parliamentary process, specifically to insulate them from accountability to cabinet ministers and other elected representatives. Electoral reform will not help that. Nor will a new leader chosen by a vote-buying orgy "leadership convention."
Change will come when a caucus removes a sitting prime minister. And chooses their replacement.
