Can David Johnston save Justin Trudeau from himself? via wr_record
No one in their right mind would have volunteered for the job of the “special rapporteur” to chart a path through the tangled web of accusations, leaked intelligence reports, public controversy and political partisanship that surrounds allegations that agents of the Chinese state interfered in the two most recent federal elections.
From what I know of him , David Johnston, the former governor general, is one of those special individuals who, whatever his misgivings — and he must have had some — would not decline if ever his prime minister asked for help. But what, precisely, is Johnston meant to do? Trudeau did not put it this way, but the mission is to extricate the prime minister from a political crisis that is largely of the PM’s own making. For all his talk of transparency and open government, Trudeau keeps operations as opaque as he can.
Given that the opposition parties control a majority of the votes in the Commons, and all of them wanted an independent inquiry, it made no sense to stonewall the way he did. He now says he will order an inquiry if Johnston recommends one, which the rapporteur surely will. Being dragged to acceptance of the inevitable is not strong leadership. It’s a sign of indecision and weakness.
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