Jody Wilson-Raybould's integrity doesn't make her a Conservative
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Summary
Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould has been accused of colluding with the Prime Minister on the SNC-Lavalin affair, but why does she not cross the aisle to join the Conservatives?
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It should have already been apparent to most Canadians, and frankly, I think it was.
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But lest there be any doubt, Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former Attorney General,
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has once again proven that she is a woman of character and integrity,
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values that are absolutely paramount if we are to get good government from the people who are elected to lead us.
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Unfortunately, her commitment to honesty, transparency, and integrity is not one that seems to be shared
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by many of her colleagues in the Liberal Caucus, and certainly not shared by Justin Trudeau.
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Remember, Justin Trudeau has obfuscated, he's been dishonest, he has been inconsistent,
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and the only one whose story has not changed through this is Jody Wilson-Raybould.
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The SNC-Lavalin affair has revealed her to be the only one telling the truth consistently,
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and lest there be any doubt about that, she's proven it.
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The phone call that she released of her conversation months ago with Michael Warnick,
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the former Clerk of the Privy Council, reveals that Jody Wilson-Raybould was in fact being pressured
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by someone who was operating as an agent for the Prime Minister,
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someone who was supposed to be Canada's chief civil servant,
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the highest non-partisan public official in Canada,
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but in actuality was running political interference for Justin Trudeau.
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how on earth can Jody Wilson-Raybould still in good conscience run for the Liberals?
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Not only is she sitting in the Liberal caucus still, and at this point no one has kicked her out of there,
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but she's also insisted that she will be running again as a Liberal candidate in the 2019 election
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something meant to bait Justin Trudeau into kicking her out of caucus,
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but there is a legitimate question here that many people have been asking,
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both for Jody Wilson-Raybould and for the Conservatives or even the New Democrats,
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if that was the party that she chose to cross to.
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A political party is not meant to be a representation
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of who you are siding with in a particular dispute.
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It's meant to be an embodiment of the values that you hold dear
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and that you'd assume are shared by that political party.
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She's continued to govern as a Liberal for a reason.
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She wants to run again as a Liberal for a reason.
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All of the Conservatives saying she should join the Conservative caucus
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are undermining what it is that makes the Conservative Party of Canada
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I shared many of these concerns when Leona Alislev,
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decided last year to cross the floor to the Conservatives.
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I said, okay, if she genuinely believes the Conservatives
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But she needs to speak to whether she is, in fact, a Conservative.
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Well, there is no doubt in anyone's mind that Jody Wilson-Raybould is not.
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Just because she's a woman of unrivaled character and integrity,
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which is a value shared by many people in the Conservative caucus,
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does not mean that she is herself a Conservative.
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We have to get out of this mindset of siloing political parties to such an extent
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that they are not actually representative of ideologies,
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but are just representative of people, personality conflicts, scandal,
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or resistance to people, personality conflicts, and scandal.
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Not liking Justin Trudeau doesn't make you a Conservative.
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We can support people of integrity in all parties
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and recognize that there are good people and bad people across the spectrum.
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But just because she finds herself at odds with Justin Trudeau on SNC-Lavalin
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And this is something that a lot of the Conservatives
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who are cheerleading for her to join them need to take heed of.