Watching the debate over Johnston’s report, an observer may conclude there wasn’t much debate about foreign interference to be had
If you only tuned into parts of Tuesday’s parliamentary debate on foreign interference, you might have thought it wasn’t much of a debate – and that it wasn’t really about foreign interference.
Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen started the government’s response to the motion by quoting a former New Democrat MP lauding Mr. Johnston’s public service years ago – and then charged the NDP had joined a conspiracy to malign the former governor-general’s character. Winnipeg Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux followed up by asking New Democrats if they personally believe in Mr. Johnston.
Still, that wouldn’t do much for the ordinary Canadian, who might reasonably think it is ridiculous to suggest that Mr. Trudeau has been a Manchurian candidate all along, but also that the whole issue of foreign interference does not actually boil down to whether Mr. Johnston’s integrity has been maligned.
And the very fact that the debate on foreign interference was focused on faith in the character of one man seemed like pretty solid evidence that there is, in fact, a governance problem.The former Conservative leader technically rose to voice his own complaint about Chinese government interference, but in practice, he was driving into the real substance of the debate on the NDP motion.
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