Some media outlets have been reporting that former federal Liberal cabinet ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott will decide by early June whether they will join the federal Green Party and run in the October election. Green Leader Elizabeth May seemed very open to this happening.
Really? Do none of them see the hypocrisy in this?
Should either of them decide to join the Greens, and should the Green Party accept them as candidates, all three will have lost all credibility about standing firm on the principles that they profess to uphold.
Both former cabinet ministers, after being expelled from the Liberal Party caucus by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, publicly declared that they still supported the policies of the Liberal Party. Those policies included not only supporting the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline but also the purchase of that pipeline at taxpayer expense.
I applauded Wilson-Raybould and Philpott during the SNC-Lavalin scandal when they stood up for the principles of prosecutorial independence and the integrity of our judicial system. However, should they now suddenly abandon their recent expressions of support for Liberal pipeline policies, they simply become just more hypocritical politicians seeking to sell out their principles to hang on to office.
More importantly, should the Green Party accept as candidates two people who so recently publicly confirmed their belief in Liberal pipeline policies, then May and the Greens would finally shatter the public鈥檚 erroneous belief that the Greens are different and more progressive than the Liberals or Conservatives.
Guy McDannold
Shirley
