Lovely Laura Stone seems to have done little more than cut-and-paste Justin “Get the f—k out of my way” Trudeau’s typically clueless remarks about the Monsef affair without any critical evaluation. If she sees her role as being an extension of the Liberal Party of Canada communications branch maybe she should work for the LPC and vacate her job at the Globe.
Candace Malcolm’s piece in the Toronto Sun, “Trudeau’s defence of Monsef gets the facts wrong”, gives a much better treatment of Trudeau’s pathetic defence.Monsef’s family did not leave a conflict zone when they left Afghanistan for Iran. Monsef was born in a modern hospital in Iran, not a refugee camp, and her mother could not have been in any doubt that her daughter was born in Afghanistan, not Iran. Iran is a much richer country than Afghanistan. An Afghan woman having a baby born in Iran would know it, just as a Mexican woman having a baby in Texas would be aware of it.