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What do Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott want? Where does this all go, now that they’re gone from cabinet?

Will they bring down the government of Justin Trudeau, in a very Canadian coup? Or, more likely, is this effectively the end of their short, unhappy lives as Liberals?

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Justin Trudeau is responding, fitfully, and retrenching, slowly. He is not leaving. He and Gerald Butts, his former principal secretary, now offer a counter-narrative: This is a managerial problem, not a moral one. This is vanity, not virtue.

Trudeau needs a return to the status quo ante. Fast. With Parliament off this week, as it was last week, he has bought time and relief from the anger of the opposition.

With Parliament off this week… Trudeau has bought time and relief from the anger of the opposition.

(Andrew Scheer, who is Stephen Harper in a threadbare cardigan, demanded that Trudeau recall Parliament during this March recess to deal with “the crisis.” That was after he demanded that Trudeau dissolve Parliament. He can’t make up his mind.)