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The real curiosity is Robertson whose track record in Vancouver reveals less substance than promise. In 2008 he commented on the challenge as mayor was to eliminate homelessness by 2015. That he only made it worse would be closer to the truth. He turned an analysis of Chinese foreign home purchases into racism, disregarding the data provided by Andy Yan of UBC. His failure to reveal his assets will continue to obscure results he plans to achieve. Carney might want to place him in the back bench so his talent development might get confirmed before he fails to achieve another large objective.

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..,made his own best guess as to their assignments. The real puzzles are Guilbeault who seems unlikable but seems to have won over Quebec voters. His tenacity for environmental promises might resonate with Carney and his own sympathies.

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Did Carney actually vet candidates for his Cabinet? An outsider view might guess that he had advice on new MPs with talent and for the Trudeau returnees, he rearranged the “deck chairs” and

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