— Musings —09.12.2019 08:07 AM
#LavScam cover-up: follow the chain of command, media folk
If I was still a reporter at the @OttawaCitizen, I'd camp out on Privy Council Clerk Ian Shugart's doorstep and harass him until he confirms that he indeed ordered staff to stonewall the @rcmpgrcpolice #LavScam criminal probe. Because I bet his #LPC boss did. Not him. #cdnpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 12, 2019
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I don’t understand how this claim can possibly be believed in the first place. Waiving Cabinet confidentiality is the Prime Minister’s decision, period. How can he possibly expect anyone to pretend that it wasn’t?
Then again, I haven’t seen much in the media about this yet. I guess $600 million goes a long way…
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s both highly improper and unethical for a Clerk to serve as any PM’s handmaiden.
That’s not PCO’s role. They are there to run the top echelon of the public service and to offer dispassionate and arms-length advice and assistance to PMO. They are not there to get a PM out of political jams or to informally become adjunct to Team PMO. Period.
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PCO’s clerk Wernick, now Shugart and before them Lynch are part the reasons that the public has lost faith and believe civil servants, agency bureaucrats, even ex SCC judges are lap dogs for the LPC and like most politicians can’t be believed. By their games with the SNC Lavalin file, they encouraged more distrust in our institutions.
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Ron and JH, wakey, wakey. There is a distinction. There is civil servant and bureaucrats on one side. and public servants on the other. The latter is an endangered species. The former owe their allegiance to the appointer. As for the great unwashed masses , “forgive them for they know not what they do”. As for political discourse, where is Allan Gregg when the nation needs him?
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Not sure harass is the verb you want. How about “steadfastly call upon him 24/7 in the spirit of public service to tell the Canadian public what they have a right to know”? Yes, much better.
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What kind of campaign fires off a desperate video of a local candidate’s abortion views…. and then the leader refuses to debate the same day? A campaign which deserves to lose.