[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[crazy canuck]

One personal request, please refrain from using Trumpist language like "the swamp" here.

Umm, no?

Because there's a real phenomenon here.  People who go to the right schools, move in the right circles, with the right connections, moving in and out of government at times.

SNC Lavalin was just such an excellent example.  Lavalin bribed Libyan government officials.  They were put under investigation in Canada for those bribes.  So SNC Lavalin puts pressure on the government -first to change legislation to allow for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, and then once that was passed, to give a DPA to SNC Lavalin  Now, they happen to run into a justice minister in Judy Raybold-Wilson who though smart was not part of that "elite" and protested.

So instead, Raybold-Wilson was fired - and in the end SNC Lavalin got their DPA.

What's the best term of that kind of incestuousness and back-scratching?  I'm not married to the word "swamp" if another word will serve, but I think it covers what we're talking about.

Two additional thoughts:

1. Trump.  Trump has no intention of "draining the swamp" - he just wanted it to benefit him.

2. Katie Telford?  The one running Carney's campaign?  Implicated in the SNC Lavalin affair.

So on the one hand you claim to be, you never Trumper.  And I accept that you were being completely harnessed about that.

The thing that is very perplexing is that you still wish to mimic of the trumpet rhetoric and seemingly without any insight about what you're doing

I fear for Canadian politics since you seem to be one of the more moderate Conservatives.