Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sworn in as a witness at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made waves Wednesday by turning what started as an examination of his government’s response to foreign interference into a pointed criticism of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sworn in as a witness at the Foreign Interference Commission in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.
"The decision of the leader of the Conservative Party to not receive the necessary clearance to get those names and protect the integrity of his party is bewildering to me and entirely lacks common sense," Trudeau added. "Prime Minister Trudeau made this sound a bit more sensational I think than it was," Wark told CBC News.
"He lapsed into really extreme partisanship when he made this accusation and he made it in terms that could not help but enrage the Conservative leader. So that was his objective. I think it worked," Fadden told host David Cochrane. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during question period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. "Just because you have a security clearance doesn't mean you have to become a Carthusian monk and never speak," he said. He also said that Poilievre could choose to be briefed only on issues affecting his own party if he wanted to create a buffer ensuring he could criticize the government on foreign interference.
During the inquiry hearing on Wednesday, lawyer Nando De Luca, acting for the Conservative Party, argued that CSIS could use something called a "threat reduction measure" to inform Poilievre about members of his party who may be compromised by foreign interference actors. "Anyone who reveals classified information is subject to the law equally and obviously, in this case, those names are classified at this time and to reveal them publicly would be a criminal offence," RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn told MPs on the public accounts committee in June.
"We don't want foreign governments knowing how we are collecting information. That's why we protect our sources and methods," she said."If information is derived from a highly classified intercept, the instant you disclose that you have information, then it alerts the people who were communicating that their communications have been intercepted," he told CBC News.
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