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Originally Posted by Firebot

I am talking about this which was also reported by Global News. Seriously, you are deliberately showing a particularly naïve and uninspired partisan stance here unlike you.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9721015/j...gence-sharing/

I'm not partisan at all. I've never once voted Liberal in my entire life, and they remain the only major federal party (other than the Bloc, obviously) that I have never voted for.

And like I said, it's not Johnston's place to rattle off names in his report; that's CSIS's (and the government's) job and it looks like they're finally doing what should have been done 2 years ago. He also didn't name the 7 Liberal and 4 Conservative candidates who the PRC was apparently intending to fund, for much the same reason.

As for the source, this is verbatim what is reported.

Whether that source is a buddy of O'Toole, a CSIS operative, or a fellow MP is not stated at all. What we do not however is that CSIS briefed O'Toole on Friday, after the David Johnston Report, that he was a target in the past and present.

I mean, that clearly states that it's from a source close to O'Toole, so obviously that info was released from his camp and at his behest.

Regardless of how you want to deflect the news, CSIS (whether officially or through a leak) has briefed O'Toole of being targeted on Friday, a shocking revelation that either Johnston deliberately omitted or missed due to gross incompetence. Whether the argument, it's quite clear that CSIS, regardless of the leak, is working contrary to Liberal government wishes if it divulged such a shocking revelation days after the report and at the start of a weekend.

How can you accept his report for face value when it failed to identify a potential PM candidate as target of foreign interference?

The public inquiry must be had.

One of the conclusions of the report was that CSIS and the government were doing a **** job handling intelligence and notifying the people who it concerned:

there are significant governance shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated from security agencies to the various government departments, processed at those departments to decide what should get briefed and recommended to the political levels, and communicated to the Prime Minister, responsible Ministers, and their respective offices for decision-making and action. This became especially clear with respect to the issues relating to Mr. Chong and other MPs. These must be addressed, and I understand the government has already begun to do so.

Notifying O'Toole is part of rectifying that (albeit 2 years too late). I'm not sure why that's working contrary to the government's wishes or how that info coming out is somehow more embarrassing to CSIS and the government than if it looked like they were doing nothing to rectify the issues that were identified in the report.