David Johnston will recommend Tuesday whether Canada needs interference inquiry
would allow for a detailed, transparent conversation about what kind of threat Canada is actually facing.
Though opposition parties had by then been clamouring for a formal public inquiry for weeks, Trudeau said Johnston would have until late May to decide whether it was warranted. He would have until the end of October to produce a final report.‘Deeply disconcerting’: Conservative MP Michael Chong testifies on alleged Chinese interference
The signs that foreign interference was happening — and getting worse — were already in plain sight well before the current controversy began.And for years, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been warning of growing concern in its annual reports. And before November ended, then-RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki confirmed an ongoing investigation into broad foreign interference allegations.
His political opponents already saw any action other than an independent public inquiry as far too little. A parliamentary committee passed a non-binding motion calling on the government to do begin one.“It’s created a huge political drama for the Liberal government and put it on the defensive, certainly,” said Wesley Wark, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
The two Canadian men had been detained in China since December 2018, just over a week after the RCMP arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant.
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