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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Very apt for Canada too, and why Canadians should be so concerned with Trudeau (and for that matter why Albertans should be so concerned with Kenney).
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Honestly, just about every government in my life has been embroiled in very comparable scandals.
A lot of the problems you see in Canada is related to partisanship, people become so certain that they hold a moral high ground because they villainize the morality of their opponents. When you have absolute clarity and certainty that you hold the moral high ground it justifies taking short cuts. That seems to generally be what happens in Canada. Kenny "knows" to admit oil extraction is a problem for the climate would destroy our way of life, so he "knows" he needs to fight against that narrative, and he "knows" that he needs his buddy who have seen the light just like him, and he "knows" is buddy would only do it for $200K/an, so it's OK to save our very way of life he is going to short cut the process and hire his buddy to a position that has never been needed.
What Trump and McConnel have done is very different, it has been about gathering and controlling power. These guys don't have some moral principal they are trying to defend, it is simply about controlling the leavers of power to whatever ends benefit them at the time.