Rex Murphy: The prorogation of the talented Mr. Poilievre
As I, with customary humility, hinted in my last aria on these pages, we have not had, as many are mistakenly asserting, a prorogation of Parliament. For whatever name you care to give to how Canada has been governed these past four months — the cottage steps encyclicals, the once-in-a-blue-moon lap-top question period — it bore no resemblance to any parliamentary proceedings ever seen on this Earth, over the moon, or in the wild stars so far beyond.There was no Parliament to shut down.
Poilievre’s press briefings had to be the dread of the wizards who practice spin for Trudeau. Their spin was unspun, and the tangled amateur “explanations” given out by the government about how Trudeau, finance minister Bill Morneau and Youth Minister Bardish Chagger variously locked arms and fired billet-doux back and forth, were both derided and destroyed.
Prorogation killed the committees. That was its point. Its only point. Parliament had been done already. Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre holds up redacted documents related to the WE scandal, tabled at the House of Commons finance committee by the Liberal government, on Aug. 19, 2020.This from missionary Craig: “Hi, Bill.” This “Bill” is the finance minister of the Government of Canada. It continues: “I hope this finds you, Nancy, Clare, Edward and Grace are enjoying some well deserved down-time over the Easter weekend.” There is a very touching tone of common familiarity here.
Another question. Why is there any redaction on a purely internal transaction between a Canadian organization and the Canadian government? These aren’t NATO documents. They are not high-level communications between Canada’s military and the Pentagon. There’s no espionage, no delicate trade talks and strategy discussions.
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