Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford has failed the accountability test
and refused to play ball. When the inquiry issued a subpoena, the premier’s lawyers fought it in court by invoking parliamentary privilege.
Trudeau had the good sense and presence of mind to testify when summoned. He had to answer for his actions, took all questions, and dodged a bullet.his decisions or indecision. But in the final analysis, Ford’s Tories come off looking amateurish, churlish and standoffish. She also washed her hands of police briefings early on, and refused to meet her counterparts in other levels of government. She seemed heedless of the reality that “the province is ultimately responsible for effective policing in Ottawa,” as Rouleau wrote.
A federal deputy minister — a non-partisan civil servant — “testified that it was unusual for one minister to take so long to arrange a meeting with another minister.” When Mulroney finally found time to talk with Alghabra after the crisis wore on, “his staff reported that the tone of the conversation was ‘difficult’ and that the province of Ontario was trying to shift responsibility to the federal government.
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