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[–] voluble@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"I have the names of a number of parliamentarians, former parliamentarians and/or candidates in the Conservative Party of Canada who are engaged, or at high risk of, or for whom there is clear intelligence around foreign interference," [Trudeau] said.

The fact that Trudeau is comfortable using foreign interference as a cudgel against a political opponent is outrageous. FFS, the Liberals knew about Han Dong, and didn't do anything about it until it became public and their hand was forced. Had that not happened, there is no reason to expect that Han Dong wouldn't still be happily sitting as a Liberal.

If the Prime Minister cared about foreign interference, he would be putting measures in place immediately to ensure that if anybody sitting in the house of commons is compromised by foreign interests, they should be expelled. He's the Prime Minister. He could make this a priority. But no, it's still somehow a bickering match about security clearances. Crazy.

[–] fourish@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

The ~~conservative~~ criminal party of Canada has some explaining to do.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

When questioned by Conservative Party lawyer Nando De Luca, Trudeau also said the names of Liberal parliamentarians and individuals from other parties are on the list of parliamentarians at risk of being compromised by foreign interference.

Wow, what a cudgel.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's an unusual axe to choose to grind during testimony. Take it from two former CSIS directors:

Richard Fadden and Ward Elcock — two former CSIS directors — told CBC News' Power & Politics on Wednesday that Trudeau probably shouldn't have taken such a partisan turn in his testimony.

"He lapsed into really extreme partisanship when he made this accusation and he made it in terms that could not help but enrage the Conservative leader. So that was his objective. I think it worked," Fadden told host David Cochrane.

"Did it advance the cause of national security? Did it advance the interest of the inquiry and the commissioners' work? I'm not so sure."

Source: CBC - "Why won't Trudeau release classified names — and why won't Poilievre get a security clearance?

“Did it advance the cause of national security? Did it advance the interest of the inquiry and the commissioners’ work? I’m not so sure.”

If it leads to Polievre getting his fucking security clearance, I would argue it does.

There would be no "partisan turn" to take if he would meet this basic expectation.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 21 hours ago

JT just needs to announce who's on the list and I'm willing to bet we'll see why exactly PP doesn't want a background check done on him.