David Johnston is gone. He was last week's sacrificial lamb. Intergovernmental Affairs leader Dominic Leblanc has suggested that the opposition parties construct their own solution to the problem. Susan Delacourt writes:
Only the most optimistic political observers, who have not been watching the antics in the Commons this spring, would give that idea much of a chance. Conservatives especially seem to be having too much fun with this whole issue, seeing it as an opportunity to cast the Trudeau government as elites in league with a foreign dictatorship.
Pierre Poilievre deals in Trumpian lies:
Have a look at how Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre sent Johnston packing on Friday night after the surprise — well maybe not a total surprise — announcement that the former governor general was stepping down as special rapporteur.
“Trudeau has been flailing around for months trying to cover up the help he got from Beijing’s Communist government,” Poilievre said in a post on Twitter.
Stop there for a moment: no matter how jaded one is with politics, this is a remarkable allegation to lay at the feet of the leader of a duly elected Canadian government — one that shouldn’t be allowed to sit out there, treated as fact. There is no evidence that the Liberals are in power because China messed with the last election and Poilievre has said, in less rabid moments, that he does not quarrel with the results of the 2021 vote.
Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet -- like Poilievre -- refused to view the top secret security documents which Johnston had gathered to make his case. Both Poilievre and Blanchet are selling grievance politics -- Blanchet from the east and Poilievre from the west.
Grievance politics raises hell. It doesn't propose solutions. I thought Mr. Singh was better than this. I now have my doubts.
And so, what have we got? A train wreck.
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