Blaine Higgs is entitled to appoint or dismiss whomever he wants to his cabinet but not all scholars are buying his argument that two government ministers who voted against a government policy had to be fired to uphold parliamentary traditions while a third who voiced the same opposition outside the legislature did not.
Attempts to follow the threads that led to the federal government's historic invocation of the Emergencies Act in February already have come upon a knot the question of who, if anyone, provided the advice that led the government to declare an emergency.