For those keeping count, former governor general David Johnston has two weeks to go before he has to recommend whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should call a public inquiry into alleged interference by China.
Johnston could, of course, announce his decision earlier, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed him on March 15, as his “independent special rapporteur” — translation, an advisor — on whether to hold a public inquiry.
In our view, it is inconceivable that Johnston won’t recommend an inquiry and that Trudeau won’t agree to one, given that the Liberals are now stumbling from controversy to controversy on the foreign interference file.Article content Then again, nothing would surprise us on this file anymore, given the incompetent way Trudeau and the Liberals have handled it from the start.
The latest fiasco is that they failed to tell Conservative MP Michael Chong that the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service concluded he and his family were being targeted by a Chinese diplomat in Toronto for Chong’s denunciation of Beijing’s human rights abuses, including threats to his family in Hong Kong.
That’s in addition to the growing list of government failures on this file that have been exposed over the past few months through a series of leaks within Canada’s security and intelligence community reported by theIf a public inquiry ordered by the Liberal government is to have any credibility, the person who heads it must be appointed with the consent of the major opposition parties, not just a personal pick by Trudeau.
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