I first saw Justin Trudeau's Elbowgate on CBC.
Peter Mansbridge was aghast at his behaviour, the assault of the party whip was alleged as was molestation of a female MP by some yahoo MP who clearly wasn't watching the same actions being displayed on air.
Only Elizabeth May seemed to sum up rationally the situation as I saw it that first day.
In my opinion with so little data to go by I thought Trudeau was just trying to get the whip back in line while the Speaker of the House was sitting on his butt, not calling for the Sergeant-at Arms to smarten up the disfunctional MPs in the middle of the mess.
On day two, I read Neil Godbout's column in The Citizen and discover for the first time the whip Trudeau was assisting to his seat was a Conservative MP.
Now I think what right does he have to lead a non-party member away?
Shouldn't that be Rona Ambrose's job?
Maybe assault is appropriate.
Four or so days later, I read a second Citizen column and find out NDP MPs were preventing the Conservative Whip from getting where he's heading.
Clearly Trudeau was acting as a Good Samaritan assisting a non-party member to function as an MP.
Now he's a hero of Parliament in my opinion and should fire the Speaker for putting him in that position.
Of course a third theory rears its ugly head! Perhaps the media was deliberately releasing only partial analysis each day to milk the maximum sales out of a widely misconstrued situation. I know what I think.
Both the media and the other MPs owe the prime minister an apology for totally inappropriate actions around what may well have been a chivalrous act. You be the judge.
Alan Martin
Prince George
