The Prime Minister launches an investigation into everything but his government, his party or himself
I don’t mean just the breathtaking change in communications strategy, on the issue that threatens to devour his government: foreign interference in our elections.
The issue, again, is not “foreign interference,” as such. We may take it as a given that our adversaries will seek to intervene in Canadian elections, as they have in other countries. The issue is not that China, according to intelligence sources, wanted the Liberals to win – though the implications are disturbing, can anyone claim to be surprised? – nor that it apparently went to some lengths to assure this, albeit with seemingly limited impact. The issue is whether it had help.
It is impossible – or let us say highly unlikely – that this information would not have reached cabinet, or the Prime Minister’s Office, or the Prime Minister himself. Yet nothing was done. Which is why so much is having to be done now.is likely to get at the question of Liberal involvement or government inactivity, in the way that, say, an independent public inquiry might.
As for asking the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency to conduct a review of “how Canada’s national security agencies handled the threat of foreign interference … specifically around the flow of information from national security agencies to decision makers”: that seems to suggest the problem was with the agencies, and not the decision makers – as if it were the former’s increasingly frantic efforts to warn the latter that was the issue, and not the latter’s apparent deafness to...
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