The Rising Canadian Political Leader That No One Can Risk Recognizing

The impressive figure who has burst so spectacularly into the cold, murky world of Ottawa over the last few weeks suffers from an unusual disadvantage. Nobody active in current politics can safely mention this person as a formidable candidate for party leadership. So let me do it for them. She is Madam Jody Wilson-Raybould, fired by the Trudeau government for actually doing what she had sworn to do when they made her Canada’s minister of justice and attorney general. When offered a lesser cabinet post, she quit on a point of principle. How staggeringly unique in today’s Ottawa. But she did not join the opposition. Nor did she elect to sit as an independent She leveled very serious charges against the Liberal prime minister that border on the criminal. People who do this are expected to leave the government benches immediately. She casts, as it were, a lethal vote of non-confidence in the prime minister. But then, horror of horrors, she stays put in the party and the caucus. -- More...