Blair’s testimony before foreign-interference inquiry offered few explanations for unusual delays
Minister of National Defence Bill Blair speaks with reporters as he arrives for a meeting of the federal cabinet in Ottawa, on Oct. 7.police chief has even trained other officers on how to testify. He knows how to stick to facts and not let lawyers entice him into speculative testimony in areas where he doesn’t want to go.
Both Ms. Astravas and Mr. Blair denied in their testimony that there was any attempt to stall because of the political sensitivity of the warrant. So perhaps that suspicion grew from the fact that no other plausible explanation was offered. In this case, Mr. Blair has from the start bristled at any suggestion he caused a delay and insisted he signed the warrant application within hours of learning of it for the first time. When inquiry lawyers referred to that as Day 54, Mr. Blair kept saying it was Day One for him.
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