2023-06-13 04:00:00
You will hardly find a case more mishandled than that of Chinese interference by the Trudeau government.
Remember. The opposition parties demanded a public inquiry.
Trudeau instead appoints a special rapporteur, responsible for determining whether an investigation is necessary.
Ethics
The man in question is an old friend. Zero credibility from the start.
Unsurprisingly, his report concludes that an investigation is not required. Zero credibility on arrival.
I said to a friend, “Looks like the report was written by Justin himself. » He answers me : « What, it’s not the case? »
His credibility in tatters, the rapporteur resigned last Friday.
Back to square one ? No, the government is deeper into the crisis than at the start.
First, he gives the impression of having things to hide even more.
Second, the passage of time has allowed lots of rumors about this Chinese interference to swell and spread.
It’s not as if the Trudeau government didn’t have tremendous expertise in ethical crises.
Remember Trudeau’s vacation on the private island of his friend, the Aga Khan.
Remember the pressure exerted on his own Minister of Justice to suspend the proceedings against SNC-Lavalin.
Remember the Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, forced to resign because of the WE Charity scandal, he who had already not declared his villa in Provence.
We will quickly pass on the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Dominic LeBlanc, who gives a contract worth several million to his wife’s cousin, and on the Minister of Commerce Mary Ng, who also gives media training contracts to a friend.
And we are only talking here about ethical breaches.
We could evoke the non-management of borders at the start of the pandemic, the siege of Ottawa by truckers, the laughable costumed Indian tour, the absolute hypocrisy of its environmental discourse, etc.
When a government with such elastic ethics still manages to get elected and re-elected, it ends up believing that it will still find a way out.
Not this time.
That the Leader of the Government in the House, Dominic LeBlanc, is ready to receive suggestions from the opposition parties on the mandate and operation of a possible commission of inquiry shows that there are no more rabbits in the liberal hat.
That all of this increases the average Canadian’s considerable cynicism toward politics is the last concern of Trudeau, who has only ever entered politics for himself.
Summer
The government obviously hopes that the arrival of summer — a dead season in politics — will reduce the tension.
He may gain a respite for a few weeks, but the business will come back in the fall.
This time, with its back against the wall, with no way out, having exhausted all its diversionary tactics, the Trudeau government will have to settle for a public, independent inquiry led by a person appointed by Parliament and not by him.
The septic tank needs to be emptied.
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