The Prime Minister could clear up the most important questions about China’s interference in our elections – simply by answering them
. The explanations for his silence need not extend to treason. It is possible to imagine all sorts of reasons why a government might prefer not to expose unpleasant truths to the light; it is, after all, what they do on most occasions, and it would be easy to forget that the unpleasant truths in the present instance involve the efforts of a foreign dictatorship to subvert our democracy, allegedly with the help of certain members of the Liberal Party.
The Prime Minister’s silence may also be based on the calculation that, eventually, in the absence of fresh revelations, people will get bored and move on. This is a not entirely unreasonable supposition, in light of Canada’s vastly ineffective institutions of accountability, especially where the actions of a prime minister are involved, in as much as most if not all of them depend upon the Prime Minister’s active co-operation to make any headway at all.
All of which is very true. But that is not what we are presented with here, as anyone who has been paying attention should know. No one has suggested anyone should be arrested based on what we have heard, still less tried or convicted. All anyone has asked for is an explanation, or failing that, an investigation. It’s easy to understand why the government would be unwilling to produce either. But the willingness of others to cut them such infinite slack is harder to fathom.
But this is not a legal proceeding, but merely an attempt to figure out what is going on. As I have written, the presumption of innocence does not oblige us to be deaf, blind and stupid. We should not condemn anyone based on leaked intelligence. But we are entitled to draw reasoned inferences, if only to say: This doesn’t smell right. We need to know more.
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