Roundup: A leaked NSICOP report?

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Another day, another story on foreign interference, this time from Global. It was largely a rehash of material released earlier, but hidden inside was mention of seeing an unredacted report from NSICOP, which raises more questions about who is leaking this material (and to what end). Justin Trudeau continues to be evasive and not give any answers to fairly clear and specific questions about what he was told and when, which is not something you should need the special rapporteur for, and which shouldn’t be a matter that requires the blanket of national security secrecy, but the barrage of pabulum about the importance of national security oversight bodies is not exactly helping his case, or making it look like he has everything under control.

https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1633509940064133130

https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1633509943625105411

https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/1633472781428948998

NSICOP did announce that they will look into the allegations of foreign interference, but the fact that one of their unredacted reports was leaked to the media is going to undermine trust in that process by security officials in this country, who were dubious about the process from the start, and who will find it even harder to trust now. That’s not good for the ongoing ability to have parliamentarians play a role in the oversight of those bodies, which is necessary in a democracy.

In the meantime, there’s more that the government could get started on right away when it comes to combatting foreign interference, and Jessica Davis has a good thread about those actions here.

https://twitter.com/JessMarinDavis/status/1633488015573041153

Ukraine Dispatch:

Russians fired a massive missile barrage across Ukraine early this morning, with more critical infrastructure being targeted. The Wagner Group is claiming that they have made advances into Bakhmut, but it’s still too early to tell the veracity or what it means in the bigger picture. Here’s a look at Canadian soldiers training Ukrainians on how to operate the Leopard 2 tanks we’ve sent them.

Good reads:

  • A coalition of diaspora groups is calling for a foreign agent registry to be  in place before the next election.
  • The government’s bill to reform how complaints against judges are handled has been languishing on the Order Paper; it could have been useful for Justice Brown.
  • The RCMP offered to give advice to the Winnipeg Police on how to search that landfill for the remains of Indigenous women buried there.
  • The CRTC, under new leadership, launched new consultations on boosting competition and lowering prices in the internet provider sector.
  • For International Women’s Day, Her Excellency Mary May Simon shared a selection of the abuse she received over social media to highlight what women face daily.
  • Grocery oligopoly CEOs were at agriculture committee so that MPs could showboat and sound tough, and for Jagmeet Singh to gather a bunch of clips for his socials.
  • Garnett Genuis has been holding up the Commons’ foreign affairs committee’s attempt to study reproductive rights globally.
  • Marc Garneau has decided to retire, citing a promise he made to his family to be more present for them.
  • Liberal MP John McKay calls the Chinese government an “existential threat” to Canada (though he is one of the more hawkish in the caucus).
  • Pierre Poilievre berated his MPs behind closed doors for their meeting with far-right MEP Christine Anderson, but he won’t do so in public.
  • Kevin Carmichael walks through the Bank of Canada’s decision to pause rate hikes this cycle, but we’ll see if there is enough data to justify holding another month.

Odds and ends:

https://youtu.be/F_xDi6oODUM 

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One thought on “Roundup: A leaked NSICOP report?”

  1. If CPC MPs on that panel leaked to their friendlies in the corrupt media, Canada has bigger problems than whatever misgivings one might have about Trudeau. It effectively means the opposition itself is not “loyal” and are the Compromised Party of Canada. Fife and Cooper are in receipt of stolen goods and are facilitating serious violations of the law. They and this treasonous leaker should be criminally charged.

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