Amy Hamm/National Post: The Carney Liberal attempt to please everyone, for the sake of clinging to power, should wind up pleasing no one. That would be the case, at least inside of the party, if the Liberals prioritized their principles. Most of them don’t.
Guilbeault was an exception. Perhaps he did originally join forces with the Liberal Party — rather than the Greens — in order to have a real chance at power. (He certainly accomplished more inside of the government than he did in his former career as an activist.) But at least he drew a line in the sand…