By Shachi Kurl, President
June 10, 2023 – By the end, David Johnston had lost the support of Parliament, lost the public square, lost his crisis communications firm Navigator, and — most importantly — had totally lost the narrative around the task he had been given: investigating foreign interference in Canadian elections.
The former governor general’s appointment as “Independent Special Rapporteur” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March was a manoeuvre intended to take the heat off the Liberals after perceived inaction over allegations of federal election interference in 2019 and 2021 by China. Instead, Johnston’s hiring brought things to a full boil.
Read more from the article in the Ottawa Citizen here.
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