A credible, independent figure who can be trusted with secrets must answer some important questions in terms ordinary Canadians can understand
There were, before an important vote on a public inquiry, a number of officials who came to the Commons procedure committee with caveats.
“They are not an account of what happened. They are often an account of what somebody said might have happened,” he told the committee. The security agencies will always be worried about secrets, so not everything about that can be aired in public. But a credible, independent figure who can be trusted with secrets must now answer those questions in terms ordinary Canadians can understand.
At this point, an inquiry has to be Mr. Trudeau’s best way forward. If it is true that the government can’t properly explain itself because it can’t talk about intelligence, then a serious, trusted figure sifting the facts is better. Politically, it is surely better for the Liberal government than letting unanswered questions mount, simmer and boil. So far, its response has been a shemozzle.
The government has since released a report by a respected former senior official, Morris Rosenberg, that found the outcome was not affected by foreign interference and the system to flag such interference worked properly.
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