WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
You needn't struggle. Even a cursory examination of JWR's career will show you that she's only ever done one thing: look out for number one. Everything she says and does serves the singular purpose of self promotion. The fact of the matter is that if it wasn't SNC Lavalin it would have been something else. She was always going to manufacture something over which to go to war with her boss and grab the spotlight for herself.
She was called to the bar in 2000 and only worked as a lawyer for 3 years before leaving to become involved with the BC Treaties Commission in 2004. Then she was with the BC Assembly of First Nations beginning in 2009. When she ran for Parliament and was elected in 2015, Trudeau made her Justice Minister and Attorney General despite her near-complete lack of legal experience, which itself was over a decade out of date. But Trudeau wanted to signal his virtue and JWR ticked two important diversity boxes: female and indigenous.
Hilarity then ensued.
You can argue about SNC Lavalin engaging in bribery and clutch your pearls if you wish, but everyone knows that when dealing in the Middle East bribery (or "backsheesh", as it's known) is just a cost of doing business. You're dealing with governments that are irredeemably corrupt. So if you want to secure a contract that will create nearly 10,000 Canadian jobs you either pay the bribe or go home empty handed. Trudeau had to weigh the bribing (to which the government could have easily turned a blind eye, and to which previous Canadian governments have always done) against the value of creating 10,000 jobs for Canadians. He strongly suggested to JWR that she do the right thing and the right thing in this case, the greater good, was to secure those jobs. But the jobs weren't going to natives nor were they going to be in her home riding so JWR didn't care about them. She only saw an opportunity to grandstand.
Anyone who knows anything about tribal councils and indigenous self-government could tell you stories about the rampant corruption. But JWR doesn't care about that when it involves natives. She will rationalize behaviors from them that she won't countenance from a corporation that actually creates jobs as opposed to native governments which only cost the taxpayers money.
Fortunately, her political career is over and she knows it. Whatever bullshit she says about the "toxic culture" of politics the fact of the matter is that she knows she committed political suicide for her 15 minutes of fame. She is unelectable except in her tiny riding. She can't do anything as an independent backbencher except sit there, hoping to be the deciding vote on a confidence motion, which isn't likely. And as an independent she is given next to nothing in terms of parliamentary perqs and certainly no budget for anything other than an extra toner cartridges for the office photocopier. She's gone from Attorney General to a nobody. And her co-conspirator Jane Philpott did even worse, losing her seat to the Liberal candidate who was given JWR's old job. In fact, Philpott finished 3rd and vanished from politics overnight.
JWR is poison. No other party will touch her because they know she's a backstabber who can't be trusted. And just in case you think we lost someone good when she was fired, take a look at this critique of her tenure as Justice Minister. It was a shit show.
Jody Wilson-Raybould Did A Poor Job As Justice Minister
During her time in office, she failed to accomplish many of the things in Trudeau's mandate letter.
Feel free to hate this woman with a passion. She deserves it.
