Trudeau's appointed Commissioner is the wrong person who has produced a phony excuse to lessen the enormity of Trudeau's breach of Canadian law.
My first reaction to the Colby Cosh article about the appointment of Anne McLellan as a commissioner to investigate issues relating to Trudeau being found in breach of Canada's conflict of interest laws was - Who the hell is Anne McLellan? So I looked her up on the Web. She is a 4 time Liberal MP and an occasional cabinet minister under several Liberal governments. This conveys the clear impression the Trudeau Liberals have appointed a fox as the investigator of a dispute in a hen house.
Trudeau had recruited McLellan to look into a structural issue underlying his recent SNC-Lavalin troubles (including the finding of conflict of interest made by the Canadian Ethics Commissioner): namely, that the Canadian government has always given the distinct jobs of justice minister and attorney general to just one person.
Here we have a Prime Minister and a host of MPs who can't be trusted to do the right thing without venturing into dangerous territory (the SNC-Lavalin Scandal, the victimization of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, the mishandling of Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, and other deplorable actions) and naturally, being the Liberal way, to put the fix in by appointing a partisan to rescue them from their arrogance, dishonesty and incompetence.
No other government in Canada, to my knowledge, has behaved so arrogantly, dishonestly and incompetently over a few short years on a matter so vital to a functioning democracy.
The best that McLellan could do was to find that politicians are ignorantly uninformed about long-standing legal principles relating to the administration of justice in Canada - as if that was a legitimate excuse for Trudeau's behaviour as Prime Minister. Every lawyer knows that ordinary citizens are 'presumed' to know the law, and that ignorance of it is no defence to a charge that they breached the law. Trudeau and his gang are not ordinary citizens. This makes their behaviour even more reprehensible and deserving of being made an example of.
See Colby Cosh's article on this important matter at:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-the-anne-mclellan-doctrine-a-politician-warns-of-politicians-ignorance
Trudeau had recruited McLellan to look into a structural issue underlying his recent SNC-Lavalin troubles (including the finding of conflict of interest made by the Canadian Ethics Commissioner): namely, that the Canadian government has always given the distinct jobs of justice minister and attorney general to just one person.
Here we have a Prime Minister and a host of MPs who can't be trusted to do the right thing without venturing into dangerous territory (the SNC-Lavalin Scandal, the victimization of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, the mishandling of Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, and other deplorable actions) and naturally, being the Liberal way, to put the fix in by appointing a partisan to rescue them from their arrogance, dishonesty and incompetence.
No other government in Canada, to my knowledge, has behaved so arrogantly, dishonestly and incompetently over a few short years on a matter so vital to a functioning democracy.
The best that McLellan could do was to find that politicians are ignorantly uninformed about long-standing legal principles relating to the administration of justice in Canada - as if that was a legitimate excuse for Trudeau's behaviour as Prime Minister. Every lawyer knows that ordinary citizens are 'presumed' to know the law, and that ignorance of it is no defence to a charge that they breached the law. Trudeau and his gang are not ordinary citizens. This makes their behaviour even more reprehensible and deserving of being made an example of.
See Colby Cosh's article on this important matter at:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-the-anne-mclellan-doctrine-a-politician-warns-of-politicians-ignorance
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