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PM Justin Trudeau himself was either in Florida, or heading back to Florida, or heading home again from Florida: For a while there, he was in and out like a sailor on shore leave. He appears to treat that state like he treats question period: It’s there for his convenience.

The committee’s next meeting, slated for next Tuesday, is expected to be held behind closed doors, and it certainly appears the majority will again reject the need to hear again from the former AG.

The adjournment itself was a superbly partisan move, moved by superb partisan — Drouin, the member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, joined the party at the age of 17, served as president of the Young Liberals for a couple of years, worked for former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and ran a couple of campaigns before being elected himself in 2015.

Unlike JWR and former Treasury Board boss Jane Philpott, no angst for that boy, no being torn between the good of the party and principle.

And after all, the scandal lasted more than a month, since Feb. 7, when the Globe and Mail published its blockbuster story — every word of which has been borne out — about politicians and government officials improperly “pressing” the former AG to issue SNC an invite to negotiate what’s called a deferred prosecution agreement, or DPA.

Turns out, the pols and officials were doing that and more, with PMO staffers trying to work around Wilson-Raybould via her staff, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick taking a call from the SNC board chair, the former clerk of the Privy Council Kevin Lynch, who was begging him to do something, the PM banging on about potential job losses and even Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s chief of staff leaning on JWR’s chief of staff.

It was indeed a full-court press.