An article by former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair this week suggested Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is shaping Canada’s foreign policy to please a few thousand voters in her own Montreal riding, particularly as it would pertain to Israel. “Thomas, have you seen the demographics of my riding”? Joly asked Mulcair.
While the defining feature of our parliamentary system is that MPs represent constituents, pandering to them in such a role as Joly holds becomes an obvious dereliction of a higher duty, and an act of moral cowardice.
Mulcair notes that it “can’t be debated” that Joly’s positions on the Israel-Hamas war have been “utterly incomprehensible.”
I wouldn’t call it cowardice, it’s the sinister math needed to keep her seat.
