Andrew Coyne: Then there was the testimony of the Prime Minister…
Mr. Trudeau testified that, while he was briefed by the party’s national campaign manager, Jeremy Broadhurst (now a senior adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office) on the Han Dong affair, he did not feel “there was sufficient or sufficiently credible information that would justify this very significant step as to remove a candidate in these circumstances.” Mr. Broadhurst, for his part, testified that he “recommended that no action should be taken,” because “I thought the bar for overturning that … that bar should be extremely high.”
Oh please. This “very significant step”? If only. Political parties drop candidates all the time, and with far less justification – because they posted something untoward on their Facebook page when they were 12, let alone because they are suspected of being the protégés of a hostile foreign power. This sudden respect for the sanctity of the local nomination process would be a lot easier to credit if there were any – if the races were not often rigged by party HQ to favour one candidate or another, when they are not pre-empted altogether.
Indeed, Mr. Trudeau at another point smirked at CSIS’s naiveté about the Canadian political process: nomination meetings, he said in a prehearing interview, are stacked with busloads of supporters for one candidate or another all the time. That may be true, but they are not usually under the direction of a foreign power – told, as the inquiry also heard, that their families back home would face “consequences” if they did not show up.
So the Liberals, and Mr. Trudeau in particular, are left with many more questions to answer after their testimony than before. Their insistence, in particular, that briefing notes prepared by CSIS for the Prime Minister’s Office, stating that Beijing had “clandestinely and deceptively interfered in both the 2019 and 2021 general elections,” that “state actors are able to conduct [foreign interference] successfully in Canada because there are no consequences, either legal or political,” and that “until [foreign interference] is viewed as an existential threat to Canadian democracy and governments forcefully and actively respond, these threats will persist,” was not reflected in what CSIS director David Vigneault personally briefed them, hangs by the slenderest of threads.
Tomorrow on CBC’s At Issue: “But at least he’s not Hitler”
“I thought the bar for overturning that … that bar should be extremely high.”
Said the highest guy at the bar
Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
Second highest.
https://youtu.be/-ZKz4s6u5BY?si=Mns6e7fTADFKqg4X
How hard would it be to blackmail them?
“he did not feel “there was sufficient or sufficiently credible information that would justify this very significant step as to remove a candidate in these circumstances.”
Heh, like he knows anything about anything. The guy could not tell what time of the day it is without his senior advisor telling him.
I see Andrew “Faux Outrage” Coyne is at it again.
isnt Coyne related to the little potato??
A relative of Coyne served as brood mare for Trudeau the elder. Hunting down every last strand of that DNA and ridding the world of it will be difficult.
Andrew Coyne is cousin of constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne, who is the mother of Pierre Trudeau’s youngest child.
So Little Potato and Andrew are 2nd Cousins.
They could marry each other.
Justin Turdeau welcomed and approved of the CCP interference in our elections, just as he accepted that the CCP gave the trudeau foundation a number of donations through cutouts. He also used the same person in an attempt to cover it up.
That’s the gist of it. In a “post national state”, declared as such by the Spawn-Fuhrer, why would he not accept all the help his heroes have to offer. The LPC and their Laurentian Elite/NDP brain trust have no moral issues with being a proxy of the CCP. It fits in with their unwritten racial and cultural replacement policies.
Just a reminder that this is Coyne’s first installment of this year’s “See? I’m not A Liberal Party bootlicker…I’m a bona fide journalist!! “. A little trick journalists use and reference to whenever accusations of overt bias raises it’s head. Until the next installment he’ll be shitting on Conservatives like he’s told too. They’re so predictable.
Sure his cousin schtupped Justin’s old man and Andy’s daddy was a former Bank of Canada Governor…so what about it.
His debate with those other sad sacks on “At Issue” discussing Poillievere’s stance on puberty blockers for children told me all I need to know about that jackwad.
I remember when he pulled that stunt back during AdScam.
The Pony, by his own testimony, considers Chicom interference in Canadian politics to be “no big deal”.
Yes, we know.
Always nice when the Canadian media finally catches up though, Andrew. Did you have to run far?
/Banjo music background with increasing tempo /
Deborah Coyne is Andrew Coyne’s cousin.
Deborah Coyne begged Justin Trudeau’s father to bang her six ways to Sunday, which of course he did and she had Susan Coyne, Justin Trudeau’s half sister.
Deborah Coyne ran against Justin Trudeau to win the Liberal leadership and become the dumbest POS Prime Minister Canada’s ever had.
If this where America it would be the same as Chelsea Clinton beating Monica Lywinski in the primaries to latter become POTUS while Monica’s first cousin covered for Chelsea.
Saw Bag of Shit Coyne’s name and read no further.
GO WEXIT
Coyne shows some honesty about immigration “… told, as the inquiry also heard, that their families back home would face “consequences”…”
“Back home “
“Coyne is a proponent of the Century Initiative, a proposal spearheaded by Dominic Barton to increase Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. He admits that this lofty goal might not increase Canada’s standard of living. Nevertheless he supports it because it is ambitious and might result in more global clout for his home country.[16]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Coyne
https://assets-global.website-files.com/5f931bff6aee7ca287dbada2/5f99ce137eaf1ee0243f1d98_CI-Report.pdf
That’s a good fit: Coyne writing for and about the Groping Male.
Coyne is a Uniparty hack.
Little Pony wishes he had a Han Dong.