by Lorne Gunter
May 27, 2018
Maybe Jason Kenney has good reason to walk back criticism he made of Justin Trudeau as an “empty trust-fund millionaire” who hasn’t got the intellectual depth to handle the prime minister’s job. Maybe Kenney truly is interested in civilizing political discourse and, whether he believes what he said 10 days ago, now regrets levelling the harsh condemnation.
But I have no reason to do the same.
A week and a half ago, Kenney, who was an MP in Ottawa for more than 19 years, including eight years in which Trudeau was also an MP, told Postmedia “I worked with dozens of MPs in Ottawa, including (opposition) critics who were thoughtful, intelligent, engaged people with whom I had a constructive relationship. (Trudeau) wasn’t one of them.”
Kenney said he got to know Trudeau quite well, and Trudeau “has difficulty with complex files, and I think (the Trans Mountain pipeline) is a very complex issue.”
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