Funny, I thought the House of Commons is the government. Did something change with the CPP buyout of the Liberal Party of Canada?
None of this makes sense — the PM’s national security advisor has said these records exist, that she and her officials used them to determine who had received the memo. The Privy Council Office and Public Safety say the records Thomas alluded to don’t exist.On May 5, shortly after the story of Chong and his family being targeted broke in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun submitted Access to Information requests for tracking records on the Chong memo.
“Provide a copy of the internal tracking report/tracking sheet/record, sign off page, or similar document tracking who received a copy of the CSIS intelligence assessment of July 20, 2021,” the request read.
Documents such as this that require a high level security clearance traditionally come with a tracking record to see not only who was sent the memo but who acknowledged receiving it. The system allows the government to keep records of who is in possession of sensitive information and to track leaks when they happen.
On Friday, the day after Thomas said that she had used a similar system to track who had received the Chong memo and had promised to provide such records to committee, the Privy Council Office denied such records existed.
“A thorough search of the records under the control of PCO was carried out on your behalf; however, no records relevant to your request were found,” the reply sent Friday stated.
A similar response was received from Public Safety Canada. Global Affairs has not responded at this point.
None of this makes sense — the PM’s national security advisor has said these records exist, that she and her officials used them to determine who had received the memo. The Privy Council Office and Public Safety say the records Thomas alluded to don’t exist.
Someone isn’t telling the truth.
LILLEY: Trudeau government can't get story straight on China meddling — Toronto Sun
The Trudeau government promised to provide documents to a Commons committee but have now said those documents don’t exist in response to a media request. It’s the latest example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing when it comes to China’s interference in Canada’s democracy...apple.news
Just over 24hrs until Johnston appears as a witness in front of the Parliamentary Committee Chaired by Bardish Chagger. It’ll be an evasive shit-show, but it will be interesting to see which questions are evaded outright and which ones Chagger interferes in directly.
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The selection of former governor general David Johnston by the prime minister as a “special rapporteur” to investigate the foreign interference and determine if a public inquiry was warranted. Trudeau anointed Johnston as his personal lightning rod to receive, or at minimum to divert or channel, the extreme voltage of anger and mistrust that rightly is only his to receive and bear. And Johnston, now defying a vote of Parliament to step aside, has obligingly poured water under his own feet, the better to amplify the shock. Strange and sad days.
Rex Murphy: Strange and sad days in Canadian democracy — National Post
The incompetent Trudeau government appears grotesquely unconcerned about foreign interference
Chong needs to hookup with Cheech and smoke their asses.None of this makes sense — the PM’s national security advisor has said these records exist, that she and her officials used them to determine who had received the memo. The Privy Council Office and Public Safety say the records Thomas alluded to don’t exist.
The Trudeau government promised to provide documents to a Commons committee but have now said those documents don’t exist in response to a media request.
It’s the latest example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing when it comes to China’s interference in Canada’s democracy, etc…
LILLEY: Trudeau government can't get story straight on China meddling — Toronto Sun
The Trudeau government promised to provide documents to a Commons committee but have now said those documents don’t exist in response to a media request. It’s the latest example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing when it comes to China’s interference in Canada’s democracy...
Just over 26 hours to go before….Johnston, who released his first report on foreign interference last month, will appear before the committee on procedure and House affairs Tuesday in Ottawa at 10:00 A.M. He is expected to answer questions for no less than three hours. The committee has been studying interference by China that may have threatened Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.
Where is the video of him falling down ?Just over 26 hours to go before….Johnston, who released his first report on foreign interference last month, will appear before the committee on procedure and House affairs Tuesday in Ottawa at 10:00 A.M. He is expected to answer questions for no less than three hours. The committee has been studying interference by China that may have threatened Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.
However, MPs could also ask Johnston to address a CBC News reportFriday that he had retained the crisis-communications firm Navigator at the start of his mandate, at taxpayers’ expense. Navigator said it provided “communications advice and support.” Johnston has been facing an onslaught of bad press after his appointment to investigate Chinese election interference that may have benefited the governing Liberal party, due to his personal connections to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
At a press conference Monday, Trudeau was asked about Johnston’s contract with Navigator but said he would not comment on decisions that Johnston and his team made “to manage the toxic climate that they’re operating in.”
“We shouldn’t have to hire a rapporteur who is a cottage neighbor, a family friend, ski buddy and member of the Trudeau Foundation and then have him try to reverse the reputational damage that that obvious conflict has caused by paying expensive consultants to do damage control,” Poilievre said Monday.
“So, we think we can skip all this, save all this money by going straight to a public inquiry.”
Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is expected to replace the NDP’s usual member on the committee, MP Rachel Blaney, to question Johnston personally. Singh did the same thing when Loblaws CEO Galen Weston appeared at a different committee earlier this year.
David Johnston is about to testify before MPs. Here's what to expect — National Post
Special rapporteur David Johnston is expected to answer questions for three hours from the committee on procedure and House affairs
Johnston has argued that a public inquiry is not advisable because it would duplicate the work he’s already done as special rapporteur and much of the evidence collected by intelligence agencies could not be made public for reasons of national security. This has been repeatedly proven false by current & former members of these intelligence agencies, & the fact that other public inquiries dealing with sensitive & secret matters are a thing that exist.
He (Johnston) instead has said he will ‘personally’ oversee public hearings with Canadians, government officials, experts and other interested parties to ‘discuss’ foreign interference, its effects on diaspora communities, and policy measures that could improve the government’s response.
The public hearings that David Johnston would personally oversee are not intended to examine foreign interference in the past two federal elections.
A string of leaks to news reporters from intelligence sources over the last several months has alleged that China targeted Conservative MPs in recent federal elections, because the party was seen as unfriendly to the communist regime, while it worked to help the Liberals, including allegedly collaborating with some individual Liberal MPs.
(the term “Independent” seems to have been dropped from David Johnston’s title in the link above also)David Johnston is about to testify before MPs. Here's what to expect — National Post
Special rapporteur David Johnston is expected to answer questions for three hours from the committee on procedure and House affairs
It was tongue in cheek . Please don’t take me literally.
It is a cool place , have been there more than once .
Looks awesome. Driven through Banff but always on the way to somewhere so we never stopped.
