Prime Minister Paul Martin has just been sworn in and has unveiled his new cabinet. It’s a pretty standard list of Liberal Party “talent” but there’s one post that is quite surprising: Irwin Cotler, noted human rights lawyer and activist, has been named Justice Minister. If Martin really is planning a rightward detour, that’s a very odd person to name to a senior cabinet post.
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M-J says
Yeah, that name popped out at me, too; ‘tho I gotta say Mr. Cotler has some surprising flashes of right-wingerdom, particularly when it comes to Israel. It’ll be innerestin’ to see how he handles the same-sex marriage and pot legalization.
Otherwise — uggh. Martin’s cabinet list proves that, no matter how incompetent, tin-eared and evil a politician is, if they happen to be the only MP from Alberta, they’re guaranteed a plum seat. Sigh.