Tyler Shandro’s legal training seems to have been of little help to him

By Lethbridge Herald on December 9, 2022.

Editor:

There is a saying I came across in the “Land Down Under” suggesting that governments appoint people to the highest levels of incompetence. The so called “Peter Principle”.

Although there are many potential nominees across Canada illustrating this wise saying, one individual comes to mind, leaving all others in their wake.

As Minister of Health, this person presumably at the bequest of the “boss”, oversaw an increasingly discombobulated COVID response, seemingly rejecting sound medical advice and opening up a province prematurely (“Open for Business”).

Now, as Minister of Justice and Solicitor General, legal training seems to be of little help drafting the almost universally panned Bill 1 (Sovereignty Act).

Asked whether the act would allow cabinet to change laws unilaterally, the Justice Minister answered “that is correct”. Well not so fast. Seems that the illustrious lawyer together with the new “boss”, now realize that “you never get things right 100% of the time”, adding that Bill 1 was never really intended to give so much power to the executive. Really? Many observers had already cited the so called “Henry the Eighth Clause” – though presumably without dissenters suffering loss of an upper body part. 

As with Health and now Justice , it seems like this person has reached the shining peak of glorious ineptitude, or one could say, incompetence.

Take a bow, Minister Tyler Shandro.

John P Nightingale

Lethbridge