Zach Paikin, the son of Steve Paikin from TVO, has called it quits, refusing to be a federal liberal party candidate. The reason is because he believes that Justin Trudeau broke his promise about allowing open nomination meetings. Trudeau, he believes has done this twice now, once in Toronto-Rosedale, and now in Trinity-Spadina. Of course Justin and liberal party officials deny this, giving other explanations for the decisions.
In my opinion, your word is your word. Perception is everything in politics. However, maybe there were legitimate reasons why this has been done. Do we really know? Maybe Zach is just a rabble rouser, too inexperienced and/or immature, ready to leap at anything that he perceives to be offensive. We don't know for sure, at least not yet.
Of course this is great fodder for opposing political forces that do not want to see Justin Trudeau and the liberals governing from Parliament Hill. And you can't blame them either for jumping all over this. That's the name of the game in politics, rightly or wrongly, fair or not.
But, I am willing to give Trudeau the benefit of the doubt on this right now, as those in other political parties would do for their leaders under similar circumstances.
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