It was a lamentable spectacle, watching the once\u002Dadmired David Johnston, glassy\u002Deyed and defiant, struggling to see the obvious conflicts
“This is the first time it has been called into question,” he said, with apparent bewilderment.The undermining of Canadians’ trust will continue as long as David Johnston remains
In his testimony, Johnston downplayed the relationship, saying that between the time the prime minister skied with his children when they were 10 or 11 and Trudeau becoming prime minister “there was no particular contact.” Johnston said he did not see a conflict; that Block is renowned for the quality of her work; and that, in any case, the conclusions in the report were his alone.
Johnston repeated the points made in his first report: that a public inquiry would go over much of the ground he has already covered and that previous inquiries — notably the Maher Arar inquiry in 2006 — have illustrated it is difficult to use classified information in public. “They are very expensive and time-consuming,” he said.Article content
But that would still leave a report that, if not biased toward the government, is remarkably uncritical. Even NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, hardly the Liberal government’s harshest taskmaster, noted the “utter lack of curiosity” on the part of ministers into the foreign interference issue. “There was no attempt to act proactively,” he said.
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