Paul Wells: Things to do in Ottawa when you're not calling an inquiry into Chinese election interference
this person, at least for the length of this column, and I’m going to tell you what goes through their head as they stare into the mirror.” The columns were a mix of uncredited reporting and speculation, and they sought to answer a common question about a given public figure at a crucial moment:column — a Joe Clark staffer once flattered me by saying he’d read a Reading-Joe’s-Mind column and wondered,?! — but I find the format too clumsy to reproduce well.
It’s hard to know how to score a statement like that. There’s some awareness that it’s an “aggressive” and “quite scary” world. There’s also the awesomely undying Trudeau certainty that “investing” in a problemParsing some recent statements by Trudeau and other government figures, it seems they absolutely believe China has opinions on Canadian elections. There’s a level of background noise — social-media campaigning for starters — that’s not going away.
I’ve also heard that “influencing” elections and “interfering” in them are two different things and that to some extent, everybody is constantly seeking to influence everybody else’s elections. Including. The question then becomes: what’s the threshold of acceptability? I know of several Canadians who had held senior positions in Stephen Harper’s government who campaigned, in person, for the Leave side in Britain’s 2017 Brexit referendum.
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