Chantal Hébert: Justin Trudeau's MPs may yet rush to the exits, but this resignation wasn’t the start of a stampede
MONTREAL—In a CTV interview earlier this week, former Liberal cabinet minister Marc Garneau described the defence of the language rights of Quebec’s anglophone minority as a “hill worth dying on.”
When the votes on the final version of C-13 are counted in the House of Commons later this spring, his will not be in the mix. He is leaving it to others to choose to die on the hill he has described. All that being said, no one expected him to run in the next election. Had he known he would be dropped from cabinet after the last campaign, chances are he might have retired in 2021. After Garneau lost his seat at the cabinet table, he had been offered but declined the post of ambassador to France.
In the lead-up to what turned out to be his last campaign, Stephen Harper saw a half-dozen veteran ministers decline to run again. Those included, among others, James Moore, Peter MacKay and John Baird.
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