It could have been a subplot written by Virgil. There was the beautiful temptress, hair blonde and loose for the cameras, and the gullible of Troy, our Justin. There were few reporters in Ottawa the other day who did not react in surprise when 41-year old MP Eve Adams from Oakville, Ontario and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau came to talk to them.
The news was that the Conservative member had been rejected by her party but was acceptable to the Liberals.
But the elephant in the room for that news conference was Eve Adams’ live-in 35-year old boy toy, former Conservative Party Executive Director Dimitri Soudas. While Adams supplied the eye candy behind announcements in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister, it was Soudas who was running the Conservative Party according to instructions from the Prime Minister’s Office.
This has all the earmarks of a Greek tragedy. While we have no idea which electoral district she will choose to cast her wiles, Adams is expected to take on an entrenched Conservative in the GTA. Despite some easy choices in Brampton, Mississauga and Etobicoke areas, many party pundits are pointing her at Finance Minister Joe Oliver in Toronto’s Eglinton-Lawrence. That contest will be the easiest to win of all.
Stephen Harper’s hapless Finance Minister is a pale shadow of the late Jim Flaherty and is expected to go down with the ship in the coming election. Frankly taking out Oliver would be no guarantee of anything for her in a Liberal government as there are far too many longer serving Liberals in Toronto waiting for their cabinet reward.
The guy with the serious career problems is Dimitri Soudas. It will soon be obvious to Adams that he is no long-term benefit to her in the Liberal Party. Taking him to Liberal Party functions will be akin to inviting a Roman Catholic monsignor to a whore house.
He might find it interesting but he would be given a wide berth.
But all of that does not excuse Justin Trudeau in this tableau. He has been suckered. At least it is to his credit that he told Adams that she has to win the seat she chooses in an open nomination. Mind you, she and Soudas will not be able to pull the same dirty tricks on a Liberal Party nomination that she tried in her last attempt in the Oakville North-Burlington electoral district. We would all be watching too carefully.
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