Last week, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), a cross-party committee of MPs and senators with top security clearances, released a heavily blacked-out document alleging, based on intelligence, that some parliamentarians have been “semi-witting or witting” participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian politics.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says,“I am more alarmed today than I was yesterday after having read the report,” Mr. Singh said. “What is clear to me is that Justin Trudeau knew and didn’t act, while Pierre Poilievre doesn’t even want to know about serious allegations touching his party.”
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she’s read the original version of a highly-publicized intelligence watchdog’s report on foreign interference and she doesn’t believe any of her House of Commons colleagues knowingly betrayed their country.”There is no list of MPs who have shown disloyalty to Canada,” she said. “I am vastly relieved.”
Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre is the sole party leader forgoing access to classified report on foreign interference.He remains wittingly ignorant.
Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau remains wittingly silent.
Yves-François Blanchet Leader of the Bloc Québécois has not commented to date upon accessing the classified document.
