“Poilievre has explained his refusal as not wanting to be bound to permanent secrecy about what he learns. He said Wednesday that the CSIS Act allows for people like him to be briefed on risks of foreign interference “without forcing them into sworn secrecy.”
Poilievre responded Wednesday that his chief of staff Ian Todd has received a number of classified briefings from the government and at no time had names of Conservative politicians come up.
“If Justin Trudeau has evidence to the contrary, he should share it with the public. Now that he has blurted it out in general terms at a commission of inquiry – he should release the facts. But he won’t – because he is making it up,” he said”
Kingalthor on
I wonder why someone that refuses to get a background check would want the PM to publicize the names? It couldn’t be that doing so would halt any investigation and the RCMP and CSIS would have an almost impossible time prosecuting.
Making the known names public also shows our hand to whoever is behind all this and allows them to start covering tracks on whoever isn’t named by pinning everything on the publicly named people.
Anyone calling for immediate release of the names is either grossly misinformed, or has ulterior motives for them to be released.
Edit: 50 downvotes in 5 min. Bots are out in full force.
rebel099 on
Clearly, not the brightest. We really have some incompetent leaders. No wonder our country is in so much trouble
KeySpace333 on
Poilievre doesn’t even have a security clearance, if names are given he’s not on the list of people to get them.
php_panda on
You have to think that Mark Miller or someone who he is close to in his personal life is on this list. If he goes to this extent to protect them.
moirende on
Let’s see… you have Justin, who has fought tooth and nail for almost two years now to try to avoid any sort of investigation into this whole thing and has refused for months to release any of the names on the list when it was revealed CSIS believes some Parliamentarians are under the influence of foreign powers.
Then, on a day it also comes out a bunch of his MPs are going to be demanding his resignation at their next caucus meeting, he drops that he has a list of CPC members either under foreign influence or are vulnerable to it (that’s a mighty big OR by the way).
On the other side we have Pierre, whose immediate response — once again — is to demand Justin release the entire list names. He also pointed out that his Chief of Staff *does* have security clearance and no one has ever briefed him with any such thing. To which we get from Justin — once again — crickets.
Put up or shut up, Justin. But we all know you won’t, because whatever Tories may be on that list for whatever reason they’re on it, the number of Liberals on it and what they’ve been doing is much, much worse.
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“Poilievre has explained his refusal as not wanting to be bound to permanent secrecy about what he learns. He said Wednesday that the CSIS Act allows for people like him to be briefed on risks of foreign interference “without forcing them into sworn secrecy.”
Poilievre responded Wednesday that his chief of staff Ian Todd has received a number of classified briefings from the government and at no time had names of Conservative politicians come up.
“If Justin Trudeau has evidence to the contrary, he should share it with the public. Now that he has blurted it out in general terms at a commission of inquiry – he should release the facts. But he won’t – because he is making it up,” he said”
I wonder why someone that refuses to get a background check would want the PM to publicize the names? It couldn’t be that doing so would halt any investigation and the RCMP and CSIS would have an almost impossible time prosecuting.
Making the known names public also shows our hand to whoever is behind all this and allows them to start covering tracks on whoever isn’t named by pinning everything on the publicly named people.
Anyone calling for immediate release of the names is either grossly misinformed, or has ulterior motives for them to be released.
Edit: 50 downvotes in 5 min. Bots are out in full force.
Clearly, not the brightest. We really have some incompetent leaders. No wonder our country is in so much trouble
Poilievre doesn’t even have a security clearance, if names are given he’s not on the list of people to get them.
You have to think that Mark Miller or someone who he is close to in his personal life is on this list. If he goes to this extent to protect them.
Let’s see… you have Justin, who has fought tooth and nail for almost two years now to try to avoid any sort of investigation into this whole thing and has refused for months to release any of the names on the list when it was revealed CSIS believes some Parliamentarians are under the influence of foreign powers.
Then, on a day it also comes out a bunch of his MPs are going to be demanding his resignation at their next caucus meeting, he drops that he has a list of CPC members either under foreign influence or are vulnerable to it (that’s a mighty big OR by the way).
On the other side we have Pierre, whose immediate response — once again — is to demand Justin release the entire list names. He also pointed out that his Chief of Staff *does* have security clearance and no one has ever briefed him with any such thing. To which we get from Justin — once again — crickets.
Put up or shut up, Justin. But we all know you won’t, because whatever Tories may be on that list for whatever reason they’re on it, the number of Liberals on it and what they’ve been doing is much, much worse.