Opinion: David Johnston: dumber than your average distinguished Canadian. The special rapporteur still thinks he’s playing James Stewart in the Canadian version of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
on the foreign interference file, has been pretty successfully smeared by Pierre Poilievre as a tool of the Liberals and the left. How horribly unjust.
Back in 2007, PM Stephen Harper, the smarter and more menacing version of Pierre Poilievre had a big problem. His own right wing predecessor, Brian Mulroney, had been caught taking wads of cash in hotel rooms. Some kind of hearing was unavoidable but Harper wanted to suppress the scuzzy reasons behind it all so he hired David Johnston to “frame” the terms of a hearing.
Yet, in the only act of his that I consider bold and unexpected, Poilievre has ignored that history of pro-Conservative vassalage by Johnston and cast him as a 100 per cent lifelong tool of Liberals like Justin Trudeau, his “ski buddy.” And it worked! Never underestimate the power of the historical memory hole.
The guy still thinks he’s playing James Stewart in the Canadian version of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Though Stewart would never have done a scene where he tells his grandkids how great a guy he is. which invoked a long-standing right wing talking point against land claims etc. He had to apologize., though I’d say he’d been expected to diffuse any racist potential in the interference issue.
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