Family Friend Will Not Allow Public Inquiry Into Chinese Bribe-Taking

What are friends for?:

Special rapporteur David Johnston is not recommending a public inquiry on foreign interference but is rather intending on conducting public hearings in the next few months. 

Johnston came to that conclusion in his first report revealed on Tuesday, after being tasked with reviewing top-secret materials related to allegations of interference leaked to the media, been given access to cabinet documents and interviewing top official officials and public officials.  

“I began this process with an inclination that I would recommend that a Public Inquiry be launched. However, after my work over the past two months, I have concluded that a Public Inquiry would not be the best way forward,” he wrote in the report.

Johnston said the public process he is recommending and that he will be conducting “should focus on strengthening Canada’s capacity to detect, deter and counter foreign interference in our elections and the threat such interference represents to our democracy”.  

 

By that time, people will have forgotten about that.

And this: 

In an interview with the National Post’s John Ivison, Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman doubled down on the view that Johnston was the “wrong appointment” because of his close ties with the Trudeau family and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Since 2018, Johnston has been a member of the foundation. The charity has previously said that Justin Trudeau ended his formal involvement with it in 2014.

 

The fix is in.

Also:

Constitutional lawyer Leighton Grey points out that Trudeau rules according to the feudal principle of Vis et Voluntas, or Force and Will, that enables a scandal-plagued and unaccomplished prime minister to rule above the law, violate Charter Rights, willfully abrogate the customs of the nation, suspend parliament, levy extortionate taxes, and sabotage the commercial interests of the people. “Severing a modern nation from its cultural identity, Trudeau is clearly unfit to govern.” But govern he does, thrice elected as prime minister by a credulous or indifferent citizenry. We recall Trudeau’s interview in The New York Times in which he referred to Canada as a secular “post-national state” with “no core identity.” For most Canadians, this provocative statement is not a call to arms. It’s nothing but a yawner. Trudeau, as Leugner explains,” is only a symptom of what ails this once great country.”