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Greg West's avatar

Jonathan Wilkinson sat in Cabinet and remained silent while Jane Philpott was kicked out of the Liberal party. He may be a ‘serious minister’ but he’s stayed in Cabinet by doing what the PMO tells him too. If the communication strategy involves creative accounting, his past behaviour shows this will not trouble him.

It would be nice if the policy debate on the usefulness of the tree planting program could be resolved by science and measurements and rational policy debate. Presumably some level of tree planting is good, but perhaps decreasing returns above some threshold...

Seems similar to debate on appropriate levels for immigration (none is demonstrably bad, but too much can also cause harm).

Thanks for the thoughtful reporting.

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Phil Marfisi's avatar

“That’s it. That’s the tweet” was a phrase the cool kids, and those working hard to join them, were putting in their tweets that year for emphasis." made me cackle

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