The Prime Minister was in Kanata on Friday to announce a 40 million dollar investment in Blackberry, to support the development of a driverless car.  Yet, not a lot of people were interested in that announcement.  Most of the journalists' questions were about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

It has been the case all week.  Clearly, the government's attempts at damage control is spinning out of control.  The Prime Minister is off message and the Liberals have lost the narrative.  Things are so bad that the Prime Minister threw his former Justice Minister under the bus, literally standing in front of the bus.

The Liberals are throwing everything at it, hoping something will stick and people will move on.   Nothing to see, move along.  We're surprised and disappointed.  She was a problem and Jody-centric, lazy and inefficient.  We condemn these anonymous comments but only to APTN.  This is a witch hunt.

Nothing is working, it remains front page news.

Not surprisingly then, Justin Trudeau had a new explanation to explain the shuffle of Jody Wilson-Raybould out of the Justice portofolio: it was Scott Brison's fault.

It is, of course, complete nonsense.  Replacing Scott Brison as the President of the Treasury Board could have been kept simple.  Find a suitable one-off replacement.  The domino effect was of the Liberals' own doing.  And the dominoes are still falling.

This new explanation from the Prime Minister is only the latest in a series of bizarre spins.

Earlier this week, Justin Trudeau resorted to blaming Wilson-Raybould for all of it.

It's "Jody's" fault that she stopped him from unethical behaviour and then didn't report to him that he did something unethical that he didn't do because she wouldn't let him do it.

The government did its job.  But she didn't tell him it was wrong.  Yet, there were vigorous debates and intense discussions.  Must have been about the colour of the carpet in the new House of Commons, no doubt.

And on Thursday, it was Liberal MP Anthony Housefather's turn to  explain that perhaps Wilson-Raybould needed out of Justice because she did not speak French, and that the arrival of a new government in Quebec would mean major legal challenges ahead or what not.  Presumably, there are no francophone Veterans left, which is why it was ok to send Wilson-Raybould to head that department.  More nonsense.

Incidentally, Housefather is the Chair of the Justice committee, a committee that just agreed to get to the bottom of nothing.

It's the Seinfeld sitcommittee.

Someone just need to add the laughtrack.

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