Cabinet ministers, MPs should stand up to ‘boys and girls in short pants’ to stop PMO interference, says former Grit MP and cabinet minister Easter

If enough cabinet ministers and MPs pushed back against orders coming from the Centre, the interference from the Prime Minister's Office would have to end, according to Wayne Easter.
Wayne Easter, former veteran Liberal cabinet minister and MP, says cabinet ministers should stop taking orders from the Centre, or the PMO.

One of the key complaints in former finance minister Bill Morneau’s unflattering book about the Trudeau government is the meddling by the Prime Minister's Office in ministerial work, and a former veteran Liberal cabinet minister and MP says a simple solution is for members...

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