Politics Insider for March 27: Supreme Court leak backlash, the ethics committee takes a pass, and canola wars heat up
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When asked directly if anyone in his office leaked details about the confidential discussion around court appointments, yes or no, Trudeau responded with an answer that didn’t rise to the standard of a non-denial denial. More a non-denial non-answer: “Canadians can have confidence in our government’s respect for the institutions, for the Supreme Court.”
Perhaps the many thousands of Canadians who have applied for federal government appointments under what they thought was a confidential process, introduced by this prime minister, will want to contemplate a class-action suit against him.
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