With David Johnston out, our leaders must get serious about tackling election interference
By Shachi Kurl, President
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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