"Former Governor recommends NO official public Inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections." May 24, 2023 Canadian News Update, Commentary Bill Kelly
Mr. Johnston underestimates the comprehension ability of the Canadian people.
Well, nobody saw that coming!
‘That’, of course was the surprising pronouncement from former Governor General David Johnston that he recommends there NOT be an official public Inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections.
Johnston says that media leaks of intelligence documents don’t tell the whole story.
By the way, that sounds eerily similar to what the Prime Minister said when the Globe and Mail and Global News broke this story some months ago.
Johnston went on to say that those leaked reports have to be looked at in a broader context, but he refused to say what that context was.
I think Mr. Johnston underestimates the comprehension ability of the Canadian people.
Most concerning though is that Johnston seemed to gloss over the farcical way that the Prime Minister’s Office dealt with these intelligence reports.
Nobody seems to know who saw these reports or who decided that these reports of foreign interference were not reliable enough to inform the Prime Minister.
But, we’ve seen this act before. At the Trucker Convoy Investigation, we discovered that intelligence reports warned the government about the convoy heading to Ottawa and of the clandestine intentions of some of the leaders, yet they did nothing until the trucks and the anarchists showed up on Parliament Hill.
If Mr. Johnston or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau think that this report will re-establish Canadians trust in this government’s commitment to national security, they would be wrong.
It has, in fact, done just the opposite!