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PostandIn · 06-10-2022, 10:28 AM

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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino (Marco Mendacious, amirite) being pressured to resign after repeatedly lying in the House and in Committee, that the Trudeau government only invoked the Emergencies Act because law enforcement told them it was required. A position the agencies state is false.

But meantime there is the court of public opinion, as convened in Parliament and its committees, and in this the government has made a spectacular mess of things. As if in obedience to some feral instinct, it has returned to the same discreditable tactics on which it has relied in the past, whenever it has been cornered: SNC-Lavalin, WE Charity, the Winnipeg lab incident, the list goes on.

These tactics are: stonewall (it has made no commitment to surrender the relevant cabinet documents, even to the judicial inquiry), blame the public service (in this case, unnamed law enforcement officials, at whose request, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has repeatedly claimed, the decision was made), haul in top civil servants to provide cover (the minister’s “intention” had been “misunderstood,” Deputy Minister of Public Safety Rob Stewart told the special joint parliamentary committee looking into the decision this week), and, when all else fails, lie.

06-10-2022, 10:28 AM	#175
PostandIn First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2015 Exp:	https://twitter.com/globeandmail/sta...RRBlfm9FCxldvQ Public Safety Minister Marco Mendocino (Marco Mendacious, amirite) being pressured to resign after repeatedly lying in the House and in Committee, that the Trudeau government only invoked the Emergencies Act because law enforcement told them it was required. A position the agencies state is false. But meantime there is the court of public opinion, as convened in Parliament and its committees, and in this the government has made a spectacular mess of things. As if in obedience to some feral instinct, it has returned to the same discreditable tactics on which it has relied in the past, whenever it has been cornered: SNC-Lavalin, WE Charity, the Winnipeg lab incident, the list goes on. These tactics are: stonewall (it has made no commitment to surrender the relevant cabinet documents, even to the judicial inquiry), blame the public service (in this case, unnamed law enforcement officials, at whose request, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has repeatedly claimed, the decision was made), haul in top civil servants to provide cover (the minister’s “intention” had been “misunderstood,” Deputy Minister of Public Safety Rob Stewart told the special joint parliamentary committee looking into the decision this week), and, when all else fails, lie.