When the word came that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was going to make an announcement about foreign interference in Canadian elections, speculation mounted about what new thing this would be.
The answer was that there wasn’t much new, except for an unnamed new person, in the unfamiliar new role of “special rapporteur,” who would be empowered to recommend what should be done next. Including whether there should be an inquiry.
Make no mistake, this was a scrambling stall tactic, a way to hold off the critics baying for a public inquiry into Beijing’s interference in Canada’s elections. Those critics include the NDP, Mr. Trudeau’s partners in a parliamentary alliance that keeps his minority government in power.
And you know it’s a scramble when the Prime Minister strides into a news conference belatedly to tell us that in the coming days he will appoint an independent, eminent Canadian whom he can’t identify right now but, don’t worry, there are lots of folks like that in Canada.
The rest of the stuff Mr. Trudeau announced, such as reviews by bodies known as NSICOP and NSIRA, were already in the realm of business-as-usual, and already rejected by opposition parliamentarians as not transparent enough.
NSICOP, for example, is a committee of parliamentarians but not a parliamentary committee – it is a body that reports to the executive, sworn to secrecy and under the security rules set by the government.
We were told that Public Safety Minister Minister Marco Mendicino is tasked with launching consultations on creating a foreign-agent registry, which is a good thing and, as it turns out, something the government had already announced in December.
In fact, the first 10 minutes of Mr. Trudeau’s news conference was an exercise in running over old news about what the government has done in the past about foreign interference, or national security, or oversight of national security, before getting to the appointment to come of an unnamed person.
But let’s not miss the thing that has happened here: Mr. Trudeau made a half turn.
“But let’s not miss the thing that has happened here: Mr. Trudeau made a half turn.”
Act I – Scene II
But he didn’t use his Chinese given name Skank Ho.. which is chineee for Small Potatoes.
RCMP is investigating who? Ah yes the Patriotic Leaker, not the CCP Traitors in our government.
Hint- Start with Big Chief Spendy McBlackface Hairdo or as the Communist Chinese say- Small Potato.
Cops for thee, not for Mr Lee. Or Dong or the rest of the FILTHY LIBERALS.
Commie Jagmeet IS THE WEAK SPOT. WE NEED TO ATTACK HIM RELENTLESSLY…Mostly Peaceful of course.
And the play will require a raconteur – a teller of tales.
I don’t know if it’s a half turn. It’s rather more typical Trudeau style BS and stalling. PP and especially Jagmeet will claim some victory and PM gains time. Since the electorate has no focus whatsoever, when the result of the ‘rapporteur’ will come out, no one will care anymore.
“Mr. Trudeau mad a half turn.”
Let me know when he makes a full dangle…
from the gibbet.
By his scrawnies.
Rapporteur in colloquial French is not a nice term. It is akin to stooly in English.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nspector4/status/1632911425382535168?
Stooly
1. A living or dummy pigeon used to decoy others.
2. An informer for the police.
Given the RCMP launching an investigation into who was leaking CSIS info, I submit Justin’s rapporteur will have the two stooly functions above.
We wanted an inquiry, what we got was stool from a turd.
Thanks joe.
We always appreciate an interpreter for his baffling BS.
I’ll assume that it will be a liberal partisan who may or may not be compromised by China, making the decision as to whether or not to have a public inquiry
Do you think this one will be related to his family like the Convoy Commissioner?
A “rapporteur” says the raconteur! Stay tuned, resignation speech on the way.
Hmmm. Unsure what would be more satisfying: Blackie getting beat in an election or Blackie quitting early. Either way…
Any way, yup, although a lot in his Montreal-Papineau Riding come from Haiti so they’ll not vote him out if they think help is on the way for their Country.
NR I wish I’d have thought of that term. Good one.
I hope the G&M have something on him that requires him to be frog marched out. They may have.
Bongofrog! How abtrapperesque of you, just picture it now… “marching” the “frog” out!! Salut, ti gars!
It’s going to take awhile longer for me to be accustomed to the Globe and Mail reporting on this sort of scandal and #Libranos malfeasance.
I’ll actually fall off my bike if the CBC follows on this reportage… (and truthfully my limit of CBC reportage is typically 20 seconds of whatever OJ links to in his morning scandal fest and roundup here at SDA known to all as the “Monday at Turtle Island series…”)
Poseur wanted:
Ignatieff is calling his office.
So when a half-ass makes half a turn does that not make a quarter? Just asking
I skimmed it but didn’t see anything like “cops or jail” in it.
I am amazed the Glob and Pail is on any of this.
Credit where credit is due however.
Paging Uncle Moe..Oh Maurice is Dead?
Well how about Jean the cretin..?
Now there is a fine “ethical Liberal”.
And any announcement from Jean could be taken anyway the listener wants.
The Boy Blunder said nothing,Globe and Mail plays pretend.
We will all be speaking Mandarin before Ottawa holds any Libtard accountable.
Look for the following from the Liberals in the upcoming days and weeks:
– abortion
– questioning past CSIS reports (eg Arar)
– Nazis, Nazis, Nazis everywhere
– spending announcements from Justin
– allegations of racism
– Stephen Harper, Stephen Harper, Stephen Harper
– Justin flying all over the country
Lather, rinse, repeat.
That is usually par the course for whatever scandal he finds himself mired in.
Thought that’s what he’d been doing for years already?
It will be accelerated.
And they’ll add guns, guns, guns.
Who will be the special rapporteur?
What’s your guess:
– Bev McLachlin?
Yawn. Biden-level obfuscation with the age-related mental disability.
I keep saying that if Justin doesn’t take care of this, the Chinese will take care of him.
This is Justin taking care of this.
Let’s remember this every day and remind him wherever he goes.
Either that, or somebody else given the sheer range and number of folks this character has managed to p.o in a relatively short number of years.
A member (or members) of the peasantry pushed too hard & too far maybe, or perhaps one of the Davos crowd or some other like-minded outfit in recompense for past services rendered, or who knows?
‘Tis virtually guaranteed to be a non-shrinking list, and unfortunately there are enough historical examples to suggest this may not end well for anybody…
Such people have had every opportunity to ditch Justin and they have not.
The Chinese, on the other hand, have paid good money to have him installed. They can’t get that money back, so …
Kim Campbell…I mean she’s a lawyer and everything. Ex-PM. Very eminent in a cat lady sort of a way.
“Kim Campbell…I mean she’s a lawyer and everything. Ex-PM. Very eminent in a cat lady sort of a way.”
She was also a ‘Progressive’ Conservative (aka Liberal Lite). She would give Trudeau all the cover he needs.
I mean, come on people! When are we going to drop the “vote better” bullshit… you know, Pollievre will fix it all, just hang on until we get, another Harper, who never did what he wrote about needed to be done in the first place… although, he did force us to buy stupidly expensive light bulbs that don’t work good, and went on nice speaking tours to the Council on Foreign Relations and such, for what reason, wtfk’s?
In the end, it is business as usual. The pendulum swings 50% to the left, and 10% to the right… over and over.
I just want to go into the woods and build a cabin, so I can ignore it all… but that ain’t our Canada anymore either.
Obviously “voting” isn’t fixing this problem, eh?
I’m just gonna drink myself to sleep after smoking my brains out, maybe with a puff of weed. Seems the most compliant way to live in this vast wilderness called Canada.
There’s only one way to solve this, and we aren’t talking about it yet.
Presumably he is combing his families Christmas card list for a suitable corrupt family member to fill this important role.
G&M getting out ahead of their own story:
Campbell Clark _ Mar 7th 2023
… “as Mr. Trudeau said, there should be a non-partisan probe, that’s the only way to provide any credibility.”
Naive or malicious.
It’s an easy choice these days.
google side winder report from 1999 csis and rcmp knew back then
Isn’t Dalton McGuinty the head of NSICOP? I might be wrong but I thought I heard that.