‘No gotcha moments’: Trudeau’s gambit reflects lessons learned from past ethical entanglements

Though late and largely unconvincing, the PM's testimony helps ensure the government’s points, rather than mere speculation, are litigated in the public square instead, says Garry Keller of StrategyCorp.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured July 30 during a rare committee appearance, sought to air his government's account of the process that led it to strike a since-abandoned deal with WE to deliver the student-grant program.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “dead of summer” committee gambit may have spurred fresh questions about the circumstances that led to the since-cancelled WE Charity deal, but for those not tuning into the minute developments of the controversy, some political an...

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