The Prime Minister has made it clear he’s willing to cast suspicion on every Parliamentarian and weaken our trust in Canadian democracy all to salvage his own political fortunes.
Time and time again, Justin Trudeau fails to meet the moment.
He focuses on division instead of unity.
He delivers poverty instead of prosperity.
And where he should inspire confidence, he instead inspires doubt.
Today, we saw one of the most egregious examples of this.
Speaking at the Foreign Interference Inquiry, Justin Trudeau said he has the names of Conservative Parliamentarians – current and former – who engaged in foreign interference:
Of course, Trudeau refuses to share those names with the public.
He even refuses to say the names in Parliament, where he would be immune from legal fallout for doing so.
Thus, Trudeau’s remarks are a clear attempt to cast blame upon everyone, to deflect blame from himself.
This is incredibly dangerous because it comes at a time when many Canadians are already concerned about the integrity of our democratic institutions.
The last thing we need is a Prime Minister putting party above country by casting aspersions on Parliamentarians without evidence, but that is what Justin Trudeau has done.
Trudeau’s divisive move also immediately backfired, when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called Trudeau’s bluff and demanded the release of all the Parliamentarians who were involved in foreign interference:
Poilievre is doing what a national leader is supposed to do. Seek transparency even when it may paint some within his own party in a bad light.
Justin Trudeau is doing the opposite by refusing to release the names and instead trying to turn foreign interference into a partisan issue.
To make matters worse, Trudeau’s claims almost immediately broke down under scrutiny.
Pierre Poilievre’s Chief of Staff Ian Todd, has the security clearance necessary to have been shown the list of the names of Parliamentarians engaged in foreign interference.
Yet, Trudeau said Todd was not given that information because it was on a ‘need to know basis.’
In short, Trudeau is saying that there is a secret list of foreign interference-linked Parliamentarians that he has access to but won’t share with the public while he uses that list as a cudgel to accuse others of foreign interference without ever having to prove it.
If someone was deliberately trying to destroy confidence in our democratic institutions, it’s tough to see how they would act any differently than Trudeau.
And it doesn’t stop there.
Trudeau also revealed shocking weakness when it comes to holding Russia accountable, claiming Canada hasn’t expelled Russian diplomats since we are worried about losing our presence in Moscow – as if having a presence there matters at this point:
And for good measure, Trudeau is totally fine with non-citizens voting in party nomination races despite how that is clearly a wide-open vector for foreign interference:
In one day of testimony, Trudeau revealed much about himself.
His combination of naivety, arrogance, dishonesty, partisanship, ignorance, narcissism, and entitlement all makes him completely unfit for the role of Prime Minister.
An election can’t come soon enough.
Spencer Fernando
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