Commentary
If I asked which cabinet minister you want fired first, the flood of replies might resemble a DDS cyberattack. The Sun’s Brian Lilley recently named five prime candidates, then, after sighing wearily that the list “could be longer,” lengthened it. And it’s a good question why the queue increasingly resembles that at a passport office.
He certainly wanted to dump Karina Gould over the passport fiasco. And to be fair, as minister of International Development, she’s not in charge of it. But one good way to get rid of a minister of International Development anyway is to abolish the whole department, since making other countries advanced would be neither a legitimate function of the Canadian government nor something it could possibly accomplish even if it were discharging its genuine basic duties so well it had time and money to spare tilting at global windmills….