Opinion: No one would benefit from Trudeau’s resignation
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on March 7. By J.J. McCullough J.J. McCullough Email Bio Follow March 14 at 2:36 PM One should always be skeptical of any effort to depose a country’s ruler outside the normal process of election. Attempting to alter the democratically chosen course of a country without a vote, though often tempting, is one of those easy answers that usually just makes things worse.
To what degree should appointed cabinet members of an elected prime minister be permitted to make decisions independent of their boss’s wishes? Since the state’s decision to prosecute or not is often a subjective one, whose subjectivity should rule? The same is true of Canada, where the office of attorney general is fused with that of justice minister. This means Trudeau’s lobbying, and eventual removal of Wilson-Raybould for her attempted exercise of British- or Israeli-style prosecutorial sovereignty, may simply represent enforcing the controversial reality of our political system, rather than betraying it.
Critics on Trudeau’s left, for their part, have to make peace with the reality that there exists no universe in which the Lavscam story ends with their heroine Wilson-Raybould in the prime minister’s chair. A Trudeau resignation would simply trigger a leadership race within the ruling Liberal Party, and a solidified norm of Canadian politics — certainly Liberal politics — is that no man or woman may become prime minister unless they are fluent in both French and English.
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