The other big issue is that in BC, the provincial government took advantage of the floods and the mudslides to charter a plane and fly in RCMP officers to arrest journalists and land defenders blocking the route of the pipeline to
Vancouver Kitimat. The pipeline crosses territory which has never had roads cut across it, and which the government never even claimed to acquire rights to by treaty. Since the minister who gave the order was the one who should be in charge of dealing with floods and mudslides
Interesting. Was he ousted for having the charge of sexual assault or for not disclosing it? It seems weird that a criminal charge which is dropped before even going to court should be punished in this way, I wonder if there was something else going on or if it's just the more political choice to appear to be taking a hard stance on sexual assault.
For not disclosing it (as an officer in the Navy Reserve he was also obliged to notify his commanding officer of the charge). And I think it became public
less than ten days before the election, so many people had already voted or did not know that he had been rejected by the party.
In the case of the Liberals, a big issue is that 2015-Trudeau campaigned on his credentials as a feminist, then governed in a way which called them in to question (if you appoint a gender-balanced cabinet, but the male PM and his male staffers try to command the female Minister of Justice and Attourney General to do things which favour their party and don't accept her "no", is that really girl power? Especially if when she resigns you launch a gendered whisper campaign against her?) So the 2021-Liberals are concerned not to be associated with any kind of inappropriate behaviour towards women.
One of the many advantages of electoral reform would be that it reduced the incentive to release dirt on candidates shortly before the election and dare the party to support them, and let people faced with a candidate no longer supported by a party vote for "a Liberal" rather than "either this newly independent candidate or another party's candidate"