David Johnston\u0027s departure necessary, but Parliament is still in an untenable position
“I know that no matter what I say, Canadians continue to have questions about what we did and what didn’t,” Trudeau told reporters during that memorable scrum, “and that is why an independent special rapporteur is going to be able to look at the entire landscape and dig deeply into everything anyone knew at any point and come back to us.’’
There was absolutely nothing in Johnston’s 53-page contradictory shambles of excuse-making and alibi-concoction that shed light on any of this, or on any of the other innumerable “media allegations,” as Johnston called them about what Trudeau called “questions about what we did and what we didn’t” regarding his government’s deliberate and willful inattention to the intelligence community’s documentation of Beijing’s clandestine interventions to the Conservatives’ detriment and the Liberals’...
The opposition parties could consent to Johnston’s formula, involving some celebrity or viceroy-like nobleman with a reputation unblemished by the kind of public disgrace Johnston has allowed to be brought upon himself, or stick with the Inquiries Act remedy the House has voted three times to demand of the Prime Minister’s Office.Article content
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