The prime minister wants us to know foreign meddling problems appear worth worrying about largely because of bad information, misunderstanding or people getting too wound up about it
The big message of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ’s testimony this week before the foreign-interference commission was – as it so often is – an elaborate political version of, “It’s not me, it’s you.”
But over and over, Mr. Trudeau kept circling back to one underlying theme that drove much of what he was explaining: what we pay attention to and why, and what the effect of that is. Here, Mr. Trudeau was arguing that foreboding language had caused everyone to pay too much attention to something that was not a big deal.to Conservative MP Michael Chong, an outspoken critic of Beijing, and asked Mr. Trudeau when he first heard about them.After The Globe reported that information and it caused a massive public furor, Mr.
He added, in a tone of confessional candour, that he doubted whether it had been needed, “but in the moment and to show Canadians how seriously we were taking this,” it made sense. Just 60 seconds later, Mr. Trudeau took a long pause and heaved a deep breath, as though weighing a big decision – or perhaps, as though wanting to offer the impression of doing so.
At the back of the room where the journalists and members of the public sit, several people emitted little snorts of their own; they sounded like the laughing-at, not laughing-with, variety.
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