Gossage: This is how bad politics has become in Canada via newmarkettoday
The wonderful gentleman and former governor general Donald Johnston, rather than providing Justin Trudeau with a clear credible path to unravelling the critical questions of China’s long-term organized interference in our democracy, has instead handed him a cauldron of new troubles, not the least of which is whether the PM made a major mistake in nominating a man he knew well for decades to unravel the China mess in the first place.
Certainly Johnston’s report appears in its exoneration of the government’s failure to act decisively on the China threats as a “whitewash.” It does give credence to the claim by the PM and ministers that they did not see some of the more damaging briefings that were leaked since he found the system for briefing to be seriously flawed. But there is still uncertainty about which PMO security adviser to the PM did or did not brief him on several key threats to MPs.
Justin was full of answers concerning the two committees he set up to examine foreign interference, but it is demonstrable that in fact little was done – through ignorance? We are to believe the PM and minsters did not see key briefing notes? An inquiry could get to the bottom of this serious gap in responding to real interference by a well-organized foreign power.
This ongoing issue and the somewhat smug way it was handled does not improve the PM’s likeability, or the trust of many Canadians in his basic judgment. Too bad. An inquiry could still sweep this issue away for months while we all got bored by the myriad intricacies of intelligence gathering and distribution. It could include a look into the widespread fear of the Chinese diaspora of the Communist regime – this would be good and an aspect worth retaining from Johnston’s proposed public hearings.
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