Former Liberal cabinet ministers previously expelled from caucus for expressing dissenting views have come out in support of Liberal MP Joël Lightbound, who recently criticized the position of his party on its COVID-19 policies, approach, and discourse. “Glimmers of democratic independence from MPs in Ottawa (Canada needs a wave of this),” said former minister of justice Jody Wilson-Raybould on Twitter on Feb. 8. “True leaders uphold democratic principles above all else=Courage. Performative & excessively partisan leadership that divides to advance self-interest=Cowardice. Canada needs the courageous.” Wilson-Raybould and former treasury board president Jane Philpott were expelled from the Liberal caucus in April 2019 after earlier resigning their cabinet posts over the government’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin scandal. At the time, Philpott said she was not given a chance to address the caucus before being expelled. In a reaction to Lightbound’s comments on Feb. 8, Philpott took to Twitter to share some …