For those who enjoy indulging in a little Ottawa “Kremlinology,” there’s been a lot of interesting buzz, increasingly in the open, about rifts in the Liberal government. The most prominent of those differences includes two cabinet ministers, who have perhaps the highest profiles: Mélanie Joly and, just this week, Chrystia Freeland.
Other disagreements are less prominent, but no less instructive. Last week, the CBC reported that Chandra Arya, an Ontario-based Liberal MP, was accusing one of his fellow Liberal MPs, B.C.-based Sukh Dhaliwal, of threatening him and aggressively accosting him outside the House of Commons.
