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Having your cabinet look more like Canada is not a bad thing.

In fact, it is a very good thing, if the members of that cabinet are able and experienced.

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The problem for Justin Trudeau is that his government is increasingly open to the charge that it is governing by optics – that it has put people in place because they tick boxes, rather than because they have the ability and experience to run complicated government departments.

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Craig Scott:

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is being lambasted in the news for telling an audience in New Delhi that “(o)n my first deployment to Kandahar in 2006, I was the architect of Operation Medusa.” Sajjan’s boastful claim to be “the” architect of this major battle merits the criticism it’s received. However, the media’s emphasis on Sajjan’s diminished role in the operation may lead the Canadian public to misunderstand the significant role Sajjan did play in Canada’s Afghanistan missions.

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