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ANALYSIS: Fraser’s Indigenous veto walk-back the latest in ministerial flip-flops

Less than a month into his new cabinet, four of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s key ministers have flip-flopped on national policy questions, the latest being Justice Minister Sean Fraser.

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Less than a month into his new cabinet, four of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s key ministers have flip-flopped on national policy questions, the latest being Justice Minister Sean Fraser. And with a Liberal defeat already on the books in the House of Commons, frequent ministerial backtracking paints a picture of a government struggling to maintain internal discipline.

Despite Liberal government whip Mark Gerretsen insisting nothing went wrong with internal party discipline, the narrow 166–164 loss on Monday suggests otherwise. Even more revealing signs of trouble lie not just in how government MPs are voting, but in what they are saying—and immediately unsaying—on critical policy files.

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