Jaime Watt: Selbstverschuldete Fehler entziehen die Glaubwürdigkeit einer Regierung. Die Liberalen haben gerade zwei gemacht
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/self-inflicted-mistakes-drain-a-government-s-credibility-the-liberals-just-made-two/article_7a1a0faf-3f23-4b3a-b9a9-d99d3ffd8f99.html
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When ministers share their opinion that appears counter to the Prime Ministers the media acts like the PM has lost control. In contrast, if the ministers always toe the line then the PM is criticized for being a micro-managing authoritarian. Holy hell articles like this are so pointless. Yes the housing ministers statement on housing prices was nonsense but acting like it has any actual impact on the Liberal governments credibility or mandate is wild.
Possibly an unpopular opinion, but one of the things I dislike intensely about party politics is message control. I understand why it’s politically expedient, but it grinds my gears, hard.
All you people are supposed to be there on your individual merits. If you’re just going to be a sock puppet, stay home.
Conservative lobbyists continue to fight an election that they lost, with the same tactics.
There is no pipeline on the table currently, because there is no business case for one. Until a pipeline builder develops a viable plan and financing, it’s all silly speculation. This is not „credibility draining government mistake“, it’s Conservative misinformation.
>It’s a strange and dangerous irony of politics that just when your mandate should be at its sharpest — fresh off a campaign — the temptation to misinterpret it is at its peak. The tunnel vision of the election clears and suddenly ministers begin seeing their new roles not as extensions of the public will, but as blank canvases for their personal agendas.
>It is the leader’s job — above all — to arrest that drift. To enforce clarity. To instill message discipline. And to continually remind every member of their cabinet and caucus why they’re sitting on the government side of the House of Commons — and not wandering in the political wilderness.
I touched on this a little in my post-cabinet-appoint-scrum critique of Champagne but it’s worth repeating: The LPC caucus needs to understand very clearly that **they** did not win the election. Voters were quite explicit in their rejection. It cost Trudeau his job.
**Carney** won the election. **Carney** has the credibility here. Implicit in his win is a rejection of how the party conducted itself to this point. Everybody else here needs to **earn** their credibility and you don’t do that by immediately going off the message that Carney was telling to win the election. When Vassy repeatedly asks you for clarification you don’t answer by avoiding the question and going on about ‚transparency‘. You don’t have that credibility.