Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  And it is right that the PM chose Marc Garneau to chair this important committee.  

Mind you, Trudeau should have given Garneau a more senior cabinet post in his initial cabinet and he should have now given him a more senior and challenging post than Transport.  But this role added to his Transport responsibilities is better than nothing.

It is interesting to compare how Trudeau has treated his chief rival in 2013 for the leadership (a race I described at the time as The Space Cadet versus The Space Man) compared, for example, with the way Mulroney treated his former leadership rival Joe Clark.

Mulroney put the national interest over his own ego and offered - and supported Clark in - the key role of foreign affairs minister.

And Trudeau?  

Well, Trudeau assigned a secondary role - Transport - to Garneau which, in my opinion, seems a petty and insecure and irresponsible decision.

But then Mulroney was an exceptional prime minister.