Some Will Not Be Fooled

Justin had better take a sick day for the rest of the calendar year:

Poilievre’s press briefings had to be the dread of the wizards who practice spin for Trudeau. Their spin was unspun, and the tangled amateur “explanations” given out by the government about how Trudeau, finance minister Bill Morneau and Youth Minister Bardish Chagger variously locked arms and fired (email) billet-doux back and forth, were both derided and destroyed.

His masterpiece was the very latest, where he flung, with magisterial scorn, blacked-out page after blacked-out page of the government’s file on WE Inc., over the press podium. Most telling was his central point during that conference.

That the government wasn’t “proroguing” to work on a “reset” or devise a post-COVID “agenda.” It was prorogued to shut down the committees, one of which Poilievre headed, looking into the WE affair. It was prorogued to halt the revelations hidden and obscured under black ink that the government lathered over the documents released.

Prorogation killed the committees. That was its point. Its only point. Parliament had been done already.

It killed further revelations of how interwound Kielburger Inc. and the highest powers in Trudeau’s government were. ...

Another question. Why is there any redaction on a purely internal transaction between a Canadian organization and the Canadian government? These aren’t NATO documents. They are not high-level communications between Canada’s military and the Pentagon. There’s no espionage, no delicate trade talks and strategy discussions.

Why were there any redactions? It can only be because between the Kieburger brothers and ministers, civil servants, the PM, and members of his family, there were at least more and other communications of an even more fulsome, embarrassing kind. Displaying their connection, and thus shredding the idea that the whole deal came about “only because the civil service insisted that only WE could deliver the program.”

 

Poilievre is not going to let this go.

And that's a good thing.