Sentences with phrase «function of the political stripe»

And as Ellis makes clear, such a result is not a function of the political stripe of the current federal government, but is endemic to the system itself: 20 years earlier, Jean Chrétien's Liberal government viewed Mulroney - government appointees to the board as too obstructionist with refugee claims, and simply replaced them with its own set of patronage appointments more inclined to deliver politically simpatico approvals of refugee claims.