Incompetence isn’t punished in Trudeau’s Ottawa. The only thing you can’t get away with is having principles and courage.
With reports revealing that Canada knew Ukrainian staff at our embassy in Kyiv were in danger, yet failed to tell them, the Liberal government has once again shown the immense gap between their words and their deeds.
The Liberals have been glad to loudly broadcast their ‘total support’ for Ukraine, while reality hasn’t matched up.
That was most clearly seen in Trudeau approving the sanctions-violating transfer of a turbine to Germany, so Germany could give it to Russia to repair a pipeline.
Aside from the brutal reality that Trudeau is helping to service Russian pipelines while opposing Canadian pipelines, there is also the fact that Ukraine has learned how little Trudeau’s word means.
And that brings us to Melanie Joly.
The foreign affairs minister has generally seemed out of her depth in the role, and her favourite method of evading scandal is to claim she was ignorant about what took place.
That’s the line she has used in response to the story about Ukrainian staff at the embassy.
“Morally, we have an obligation toward our locally engaged staff. Never did I or the department have any information targeting locally engaged staff,” said Joly. “We never got that information. [Not] me, nor my team, nor the department,” she added.
This is the old dilemma: Either Joly knew and is being dishonest, or she is incompetent.
Either way, she should resign.
But of course, she won’t.
Only honesty and ethics gets you punished by Trudeau
In Trudeau’s Ottawa, incompetence isn’t punished. Indeed, Trudeau seems to love surrounding himself with people who make him look smart by comparison, which is a truly difficult task. Joly manages to pull it off though, and since she remains loyal to the Trudeau personality cult she gets to maintain her position.
Meanwhile, we see that people like Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott were pushed out of the Trudeau cabinet.
Both were highly regarded as competent, highly-intelligent, and honest.
And that last bit was the problem.
They actually thought Trudeau was serious when he said he wanted to “do politics differently” and run an “open and transparent government.”
They both have a sense of personal and professional ethics that they tried to live up to.
And, when Trudeau pushed them to violate their principles, they refused.
So, they are gone, while people like Joly remain.
This should trouble all Canadians, because the more this goes on, the more the quality of our governance will degrade.
Spencer Fernando
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