Nobody believes any of this was Chagger's fault. That was just a really weak attempt at scapegoating on Trudeau's part.

Now if he treated her the way a leader is supposed to treat subordinates, he would never have tried to blame her for his own transgressions because that's not something leaders do. It's a lot easier to shift blame onto a peer because you're not abusing a power imbalance when you do that. So Trudeau gives himself permission to do that by treating his MPs and ministers as peers rather than subordinates.

Nobody believes any of this was Chagger's fault. That was just a really weak attempt at scapegoating on Trudeau's part.

Now if he treated her the way a leader is supposed to treat subordinates, he would never have tried to blame her for his own transgressions because that's not something leaders do. It's a lot easier to shift blame onto a peer. So Trudeau gives himself permission to do that by treating his MPs and ministers as peers rather than subordinates.