There goes Jagmeet Singh on CTV noting that "the government" has always had the capacity to launch a public enquiry and why doesn't "the government" just do it. Apparently Mr. Singh hasn't read the part of the Rapporteur's report (not classified) that says why. /2 #cdnpoli
2/ That "why" is that so much material is ***classified***. Mr. Singh says that Canadians are entitled to the truth about FI, but he can't bring himself to be truthful or secure the clearance needed so that *he* can look at the classified material in the report's Annex. /3
3/ Then he ties himself into a pretzel explaining why the NDP didn't recommend a Rapporteur when invited, saying that the NDP did supply criteria for the selection of one, but doesn't explain why he set about poisoning the reputation of David Johnston. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
It appears that we have the CPC and then we have a branch plant of the CPC.
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The technical people at Rogers say that my mother's outgoing LD calls (and some local calls) are not being dialled completely, perhaps because she can't dial them quickly enough before the system takes over. I wonder if she just gets off-track in the middle of a long number. /2
2/ Anyway, I'm going to have a neighbour do some testing tonight and then we'll have a better idea of what's going on. I spent a week with my mother, observing and listening closely to make sure dementia wasn't encroaching and I didn't see anything to make me conclude that. /3
3/ I'm her only child and I'm so far away that it's quite difficult to keep an eye on things. I have been relying to a point on a cousin, but she has her own life to lead. I think she needs a new phone with BIG numbers that I or someone else can program. /4
I noticed this am that gas in YYC is up about 14 cents/l. Danielle Smith and Pierre Poilievre are tweeting about a 14 cent carbon levy increase, the PM, orange cars (NDP), and the CBC. The carbon levy bumped from 11.05 to 14.31 cents/l. That’s 3.26 cents/l, not 14. /2 #cdnpoli
2/ Conservatives are just not serious people. Stupid and shallow is their thing. They’re such marionettes that they won’t comment on oil and gas companies having “fun” with consumers to the tune of 11 cents/l under shelter of the carbon levy increase.
They are not serious people. Everything is a game. Lie, misinform, what fun.
Could we just evaluate something without referring to one of the Conservatives’ fake scandals? The two things aren’t remotely equivalent. At the federal level, the AG has the authority to Gazette notice of directing the prosecution. #cdnpoli#abpoli
And it was her option not to so direct the prosecution, but it was entirely in Shawcross order for her colleagues to discuss that optional direction. What they couldn’t do is direct her, and she testified that no one including the PM did.
And her idea of pressure was that she could create a silo and refuse to discuss anything - which Shawcross (Doctrine) himself says is unwise.
I am perplexed by notice of what Danielle Smith said about the PM and JWR, which was not much except to conveniently refer to them. In fact, there was nothing wrong with the PM - or anyone else, for that matter - approaching the former AG to discuss SNC-L /2 #cdnpoli
2/ What no one could do is tell her what her decision ought to be and she testified that she was not so directed. The 2006 Harper DPP Act gives the federal AG authority to direct the public prosecution - to either assume conduct of a prosecution or to direct the PPSC. /3
3/ This can't be done by covert means - it has to be published (with rationale) in the Gazette for the public to see. The Shawcross Doctrine *recommends* that an AG be open to discussion with cabinet colleagues but requires that he or she resign if directed by them. /4