This can't and won't go away. Someone will leak. It's the Streisand effect and I don't see any way anyone can worm themselves out of this one. Seems politically shortsighted to not come out in front of this one, so I'm interested to see the fallout with May vs Singh vs PP vs Trudeau. Here's how I see the current playing field:
Trudeau - we take this seriously, but have problems with the report's conclusions.
Pollievre - I can't read the report because then I can't do anything about it because rules
May - Everything is fine
Singh - TREASON!
Based on that and the assumption that Pollievre absolutely has been filled in with what's in the report, my reading of the landscape is that there's some "light treason" such as accepting money from foreign entities or secretly and knowingly meeting Chinese/Indian intermediaries with no obvious quid pro quo. Singh is banging the drum to get political points, Pollievre is trying to avoid bad politics by covering eyes and ears, Trudeau is trying to spin the report by dimming the conclusions, and May herself is implicated.
I'm not thinking actual aiding and abetting hostile foreign powers here, but definitely some offside exchanging access for power here. There's some MP's and leaders who need to go after this to ensure the sanctity of office, but I don't think we see and charges
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