This weekend marks the seventh anniversary of Justin Trudeau's boxing match with Patrick Brazeau. The general consensus then was that Brazeau would have Trudeau on the ropes. That didn't happen. But Trudeau is on the ropes now. Susan Delacourt writes:

Wilson-Raybould’s new evidence serves to underline her contention, made in explosive testimony last month, that the Prime Minister was far from casually interested in the future of SNC-Lavalin. As it’s described in some detail, Trudeau and his team just kept punching home the point, from September, all the way to February.

Without saying explicitly the contents of the conversations they held before she quit cabinet in mid-February, Wilson-Raybould hints that Trudeau remained set on the path to grant that DPA, with or without her, and having already shuffled her out of the way to veterans affairs.

 No one can predict how this fight will end. And -- make no mistake -- this is a fight:

This story isn’t over yet and no one is entirely sure how it ends, for Trudeau, Wilson-Raybould or the Liberal party to which they both still belong. It is not even clear at the moment who is administering the knockout blows. Wilson-Raybould is out of cabinet, but Trudeau is back on his heels too, apparently unable to end this match.

Seven years ago, Brazeau and Trudeau agreed that the winner would get to cut the loser's hair:

When it came time for Trudeau to publicly shear the ponytailed Brazeau in the Commons foyer, he opted to make a minor clip with the scissors, barely visible. Trudeau would confide later that there was no way this son of Pierre Trudeau was going to be photographed cutting the hair of one of Canada’s Indigenous people.

Trudeau doesn't want to cut Wilson-Raybould's hair. But he may have met his Delilah.

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