Jen Gerson with a pretty on-point piece, as always.
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What if Trudeau took allegations of interference seriously at the outset, and his party avoided stunts like skipping committee meetings and filibustering to prevent the testimony of his chief of staff, Katie Telford?
Where would they be today if they hadn't squandered every iota of credibility and goodwill with the press, the NDP, and his own intelligence services? To put it more directly, what if they hadn’t spent the past few weeks acting as if they had something to hide?
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I'm going to put something out for consideration: Perhaps the denials, obfuscations and attacks are only making the scandal worse. They're convincing journalists that there's a real story here while prompting an already pissy collection of national security sources to leak harder.
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Look, I reserve judgment about whether or not this government is actually guilty of anything. A perfectly plausible explanation for Trudeau's actions is that he has been trying to deflect this scandal not because he and his crew are compromised, but rather because the whole Ottawa Establishment wants to avoid another nasty scrap with China. I'm not sure it has to be more complicated than that. It's also possible that elements within CSIS really have gone rogue.
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https://theline.substack.com/p/jen-g...als-masters-at
Worth reading the whole thing.