There’s a different set of rules for PM

Early in 2018 Prime Minister Trudeau accepted the resignation of his Sports and Disabilities minister, Albertan Kent Hehr, after allegations arose that said minister (years prior while an MLA in the Alberta Legislature), made an inappropriate, verbally suggestive comment to a female.

Pending the obligatory investigation(s) Mr. Hehr promptly resigned his ministry – perhaps feeling this the honorable path in the prevailing orbit of sensitive interactions with “personhood(s).”

Clarifying, PM Trudeau said his government “takes any allegations of misconduct extremely seriously” stating further that “harassment of any kind is unacceptable” and that Liberals “support women who come forward with allegations.”

Interestingly, in 2000, a female reporter for a British Columbia newspaper claimed a frolicky, free-wheeling rich kid named Justin Trudeau “groped” her – an act for which it’s been written the then undeclared feminist and future PM “apologized” for.

This crack in the Trudeau fortress recently created media interest – at least among the small lot not “owned” or stumping for the spendthrift left wing of Canadian politics.

Predictably the prime minister’s response arrived via “spokesperson” whose statement says his boss “remembers being in” the small B.C. town of Creston at the time, but “doesn’t think he had any negative reaction there.”

“doesn’t think he had” – not good enough, Mr. Prime Minister! Should Mr. Hehr have concocted a line similarly explaining away his “alleged” indiscretion, saving his job and reputation? Indeed, could mere words have saved the career and livelihood of the wheelchair-bound minister of Sports and Disabilities? I doubt this very much!

So, will the prime minister step down?

Will he choose to uphold standards and live the words used to explain Kent Hehr’s resignation and others in his party who ran afoul of civility and who were also dismissed or fired?

Don’t bet the house on it – there’s two sets of rules. I’d be surprised if Kent Hehr isn’t a keen observer checking how the Teflon Lord of Unprecedented Expense Accounts digs himself out of a situation that can’t summarily be billed to the peasants toiling in the fields.