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Methinks the average Canadian out in the Hinterland does care about the integrity of our Prime Minister N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/04/ill-continue-to-speak-my-voice-jody.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jody-wilson-raybould-vancouver-snc-lavallin-recording-1.5085893
'I'll continue to speak my voice': Jody Wilson-Raybould 'incredibly open' to future in federal politics
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Lorne Mccuaig
JWR's future in politics is over. I can't see any party wanting her after recording Wernick. It won't be just Liberals that don't trust her now and for good reason.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Lorne Mccuaig: Methinks many would agree that the Greens and the NDP would welcome the Jane and Jody Tag Team into their caucuses with wide open arms N'esy Pas?
Lorne Mccuaig
JWR was asked how she felt knowing her decisions hurt the Liberal brand and the indigenous file. She said while she acknowledged hurting the Libs, other parties need to embrace indigenous issues more. JWR, either through a lack of empathy or naivety, wouldn't accept that she just hurt the best political party of choice for indigenous people. She wouldn't take responsibility for it. Its telling.
sian maccauley
Reply to @Lorne Mccuaig:
It is Trudeau who has destroyed his own brand.
David R. Amos
Reply to @sian maccauley: YUP
Jeff Weltman
I live in Jody's riding and now that she has been kicked out of the Liberal Cabinet and now the caucus she really doesn't appear nearly as appealing as my elected member of Parliament. She is not as powerful or influential in her representation of issues that concern urban Vancouverites which is where her constituents are and she is not. She seems to really be more at home in Haida Gwaii with her people.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jeff Weltman: Methinks folks should ask me about my conversation with one of Jody's constituency assistants before Trudeau The Younger booted the ladies out of his caucus N'esy Pas?
Louisa Walker
If she is unaware her political career is over she’s not much of a politician.
She should get her law license up to date and move on.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Louisa Walker: "She should get her law license up to date and move on."
Methinks she may have a little trouble in that regard N'esy Pas?
Methinks she may have a little trouble in that regard N'esy Pas?
Tom Joseph
The average Canadian out in the Hinterland couldn’t give a rat’s behind about SNC-Lavalin...They are more concerned about the environment ,the economy , healthcare and other issues that matter to them in their daily lives...Philpott and Wilson-Raybould were selfishly taking up the government’s time with personal grudges..
David R. Amos
Reply to @Tom Joseph: Methinks the average Canadian out in the Hinterland does care about the integrity of our Prime Minister N'esy Pas?
John Dunn
"Former AG says she's still 'entirely committed' to issues of Indigenous reconciliation" Then why did you turn down the cabinet post related to it? It makes no sense whatsoever.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John Dunn: "It makes no sense whatsoever"
Methinks her reason for turning down that post made perfect sense to a lot of folks who are not Trudeau supporters N'esy Pas?
Matthew Rockall
Maybe she should run as an independent because she doesn’t seem to understand what it means to be on a team.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Matthew Rockall: "she doesn’t seem to understand what it means to be on a team."
Methinks folks are beginning to understand the reasons why I have been on a ballot six times thus far as an Independent N'esy Pas?
John Birch
Knock yourself out there Jodi. Your Party of One will go far into the annals of oblivion.
Nobody likes a sneak.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John Birch:
So you say However methinks her pal Jane disagrees along with a lot of
other self serving politicians N'esy Pas?
Geord Mciver
This is like grade 3 page 2 behaviour, very immature, here’s an idea, try representing the people that elected you
David R. Amos
Reply to @Geord Mciver: Dream on
Robert Thomson
While she stood on her principals as she defined them and will be remembered by many accordingly, she and Philpott will also be remembered as the MPs who gifted social conservatives with Ottawa and their view that their religious faith and public policy are one and the same. Scheer and his provincial counterpart in Alberta Kenney must be pinching themselves with disbelief that those progressives just gave them Ottawa and Canada to make over in their life view. With every action comes and equal and opposite reaction. Soon we may just see that manifest.
Robert Thomson
Reply to @wal wiseman: While I agree with your sentiment in fact the Deferred Prosecution Agreement is a well established legal principal practiced in many democracies and employed where a large corporation has its tentacles entwined deeply into the public infrastructure and where significant damage may occur if that company is convicted of a crime and losses its ability to function domestically. While it is fine to stand on ethical principals, if SNC proceeds to trial and is convicted, the political , economic and social fall out with the loss of contract and jobs would result in exactly the same furor the allegation of unethical impropriety is bringing. Its a no win situation for any political party in power in Ottawa. You will note of course that the Conservatives are keeping silent on the possibilities of a criminal conviction because they know that has they been in the same situation they would be in the same bind
David R. Amos
Reply to @Robert Thomson: Methinks some folks must have noticed that you write a lot of fancy words just like nervous liberal lawyer would N'esy Pas?
'I'll continue to speak my voice': Jody Wilson-Raybould 'incredibly open' to future in federal politics
Former AG says she's still 'entirely committed' to issues of Indigenous reconciliation, climate change
Former attorney general Jody
Wilson-Raybould says she hasn't ruled out a future in federal politics,
saying she is "entirely committed" to public policy issues like
reconciliation and climate change just as she was when she first ran for
a seat in Ottawa nearly four years ago.
Despite being at the centre of the months-long SNC-Lavalin controversy, Wilson-Raybould told CBC'sThe Early Edition that she's still "incredibly open" to being involved with decisions made in Ottawa.
"I still have a commitment to ensuring that our governments, the government politics in Ottawa, is and becomes a different way of making decisions, a different way of doing politics," the Vancouver Granville MP said during a phone interview before boarding a flight home from Ottawa.
"And [as for] what the people of Vancouver Granville feel — and I hope that they feel at liberty to tell me how they feel — I'll make a decision on what I do [in the fall]."
'I
still believe in the values and the principles of equality and
inclusion and justice that I feel underpin the Liberal Party,'
Wilson-Raybould said. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Wilson-Raybould first
got involved in federal politics because Justin Trudeau, as leader of
the Liberal Party, asked her to run in the 2015 federal election. She
went on to become the country's first Indigenous justice minister and
attorney general.
But a scandal erupted two months ago when the Globe and Mail reported that Wilson-Raybould had faced inappropriate political pressure on a criminal prosecution decision against SNC-Lavalin. Wilson-Raybould and her former cabinet colleague Jane Philpott both later resigned from cabinet to protest the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin file.
Trudeau ejected both MPs from caucus on Tuesday, leaving them as back-corner independents.
Jane
Philpott (left) and Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet to
protest the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin file. The prime
minister ejected both MPs from caucus on Tuesday, leaving them as
back-corner independents. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)
On Friday, Wilson-Raybould said she still sees many of the same issues unresolved today as she did in 2015.
"I believe fundamentally that in order to transform indigenous communities, we need to, as a government and as a country, create a space for Indigenous peoples to be self-determinant. And that's why I ran [in 2015]," she said.
"I do still see ... the fundamental need to create the space for a transformative relationship with Indigenous peoples based on the recognition of rights.
"That is something that I am entirely committed to."
The ousting of Wilson-Raybould and Philpott from the Liberal caucus has fuelled accusations that the party has abandoned its 2015 campaign commitments to Indigenous reconciliation and gender equality — but the former attorney general, despite having fallen out of favour with the party, said she still supports many Liberal ideals.
"I was a member of the Liberal Party, I still believe in the values and the principles of equality and inclusion and justice that I feel underpin the Liberal Party, and so many Canadians signed up for the Liberal Party back in 2015 believing in the same thing — or even in doing politics differently," she said, adding that she sees Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer as a "worry" for the future of reconciliation.
"I absolutely still believe in that."
Wilson-Raybould's
constituency office in Vancouver. 'I hope that they feel at liberty to
tell me how they feel,' she said of her Vancouver Granville
constituents, concerning her future in politics. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
The MP's riding of Vancouver Granville, formed in 2013, has been in a mix of shock and support for its ousted representative. Wilson-Raybould said she's been out door-knocking in her riding to talk to constituents in light of the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
"I have to say, and this is what I said to people that I found on the doorsteps in Vancouver Granville and chat, is that I was doing my job," she said.
"I'll continue to speak my voice as long as I have the great fortune of being the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville, in that capacity and then all other capacities I'll be fortunate enough to fulfil," she continued.
"I need to, of course, continue to talk to my husband and my family. I'm coming home and I'm so looking forward to getting back to Vancouver talking to my volunteers in the riding, to, particularly, constituents, and hearing what they have to say."
Despite being at the centre of the months-long SNC-Lavalin controversy, Wilson-Raybould told CBC'sThe Early Edition that she's still "incredibly open" to being involved with decisions made in Ottawa.
"I still have a commitment to ensuring that our governments, the government politics in Ottawa, is and becomes a different way of making decisions, a different way of doing politics," the Vancouver Granville MP said during a phone interview before boarding a flight home from Ottawa.
"And [as for] what the people of Vancouver Granville feel — and I hope that they feel at liberty to tell me how they feel — I'll make a decision on what I do [in the fall]."
But a scandal erupted two months ago when the Globe and Mail reported that Wilson-Raybould had faced inappropriate political pressure on a criminal prosecution decision against SNC-Lavalin. Wilson-Raybould and her former cabinet colleague Jane Philpott both later resigned from cabinet to protest the government's handling of the SNC-Lavalin file.
Trudeau ejected both MPs from caucus on Tuesday, leaving them as back-corner independents.
Reconciliation issues
On Friday, Wilson-Raybould said she still sees many of the same issues unresolved today as she did in 2015.
"I believe fundamentally that in order to transform indigenous communities, we need to, as a government and as a country, create a space for Indigenous peoples to be self-determinant. And that's why I ran [in 2015]," she said.
"I do still see ... the fundamental need to create the space for a transformative relationship with Indigenous peoples based on the recognition of rights.
"That is something that I am entirely committed to."
The ousting of Wilson-Raybould and Philpott from the Liberal caucus has fuelled accusations that the party has abandoned its 2015 campaign commitments to Indigenous reconciliation and gender equality — but the former attorney general, despite having fallen out of favour with the party, said she still supports many Liberal ideals.
"I was a member of the Liberal Party, I still believe in the values and the principles of equality and inclusion and justice that I feel underpin the Liberal Party, and so many Canadians signed up for the Liberal Party back in 2015 believing in the same thing — or even in doing politics differently," she said, adding that she sees Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer as a "worry" for the future of reconciliation.
"I absolutely still believe in that."
'I was doing my job'
The MP's riding of Vancouver Granville, formed in 2013, has been in a mix of shock and support for its ousted representative. Wilson-Raybould said she's been out door-knocking in her riding to talk to constituents in light of the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
"I have to say, and this is what I said to people that I found on the doorsteps in Vancouver Granville and chat, is that I was doing my job," she said.
"I'll continue to speak my voice as long as I have the great fortune of being the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville, in that capacity and then all other capacities I'll be fortunate enough to fulfil," she continued.
"I need to, of course, continue to talk to my husband and my family. I'm coming home and I'm so looking forward to getting back to Vancouver talking to my volunteers in the riding, to, particularly, constituents, and hearing what they have to say."
With files from CBC's The Early Edition and the Canadian Press
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
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