Friends do not let friends call public inquiries
There are so many observations to be made about Johnston’s decision that there is no need for a public inquiry into the machinations of the Chinese Communist government in Canadian elections.
David Johnston has too many associations with the Trudeau apparatus and indeed the Trudeau family and the Prime Minister himself to have ever even been considered as the one person, the one single mind, to decide whether the greatest attempted surreptitious invasion of Canada’s democratic integrity by the world’s largest communist state, merited a full, staffed, neutralist, thorough and public inquiry.
Who should decide if a public inquiry is the only route to go? The answer is blatantly clear and inescapable. What a wash that was? How superficial, how profoundly complacent about the wreckage of all the rights, supposedly enshrined and inviolate in our sacred Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Trudeau government brought in near-wartime powers — never gave anything like a substantial account of why it did, never released primary documents upon which it said it relied — and the tame inquiry that followed barely gave a whisper of genuine accountability.
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