PETERS – Trudeau’s new cabinet is bloated and confusing

Posted on November 23, 2019 in Local Voices, Page One, Peters // 0 Comments

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JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S NEW CABINET, named this week, is a head-scratcher.

Forming a cabinet in Canada is becoming less and less about matching the most talented people with jobs in which they can excel to the benefit of the nation as a whole.

Instead, it has become a lot like the Canadian Senate in that appointments to cabinet are regionally based rewards.

Why else would we need three dozen cabinet ministers beneath the prime minister, each of them drawing extra salary and employing extra staff?

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James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.

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