{"id":23464,"date":"2023-06-01T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23464"},"modified":"2023-06-01T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T18:34:25","slug":"tone-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23464","title":{"rendered":"tone deaf&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tone-deaf-decision-making.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23467\" width=\"900\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tone-deaf-decision-making.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tone-deaf-decision-making-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tone-deaf-decision-making-768x655.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;Tone-deaf&#8217;: Singh slams Johnston&#8217;s decision to not step down as foreign interference rapporteur<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>EXCERPTED from CTV NEWS :Published June 1, 2023 12:40 p.m. ADT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NDP Leader<strong> Jagmeet Singh<\/strong> slammed foreign interference special rapporteur David Johnston&#8217;s refusal to heed the House of Commons&#8217; call for him to step down as &#8220;tone-deaf.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;With all due respect to the service of Mr. Johnston and his previous public service, I believe that his response to the vote on our motion is tone-deaf,&#8221; Singh said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the majority of MPs\u2014all from opposition parties\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/politics\/special-rapporteur-johnston-rejects-call-to-step-aside-after-majority-of-mps-vote-for-him-to-resign-1.6421300\">passed a motion<\/a> calling for Johnston to &#8220;step aside&#8221; after he recommended against a public inquiry, and in light of the &#8220;serious questions&#8221; raised about his mandate and conclusions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within an hour of the non-binding motion being passed, <strong>Johnston <\/strong>issued a statement asserting his intention to continue on with his work. He said that while he &#8220;deeply&#8221; respects the right of the House of Commons to &#8220;express its opinion about my work going forward&#8221; his mandate came from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Decision-making.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23466\" width=\"750\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Decision-making.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Decision-making-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Decision-making-768x692.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am very disappointed with the lack of understanding of the importance of such a vote calling for him to step aside and the rapidity with which he responded to this vote,&#8221; <strong>Singh<\/strong> said. &#8220;Going forward, I expect, it will be very difficult for Mr. Johnston.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-Painter-Jagmeet-Singh-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23452\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-Painter-Jagmeet-Singh-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-Painter-Jagmeet-Singh-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-Painter-Jagmeet-Singh-1-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tone-deaf&#8217;: Singh slams Johnston&#8217;s decision to not step down as foreign interference rapporteur EXCERPTED from CTV NEWS :Published June 1, 2023 12:40 p.m. ADT NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh slammed foreign interference special rapporteur David Johnston&#8217;s refusal to heed the House of Commons&#8217; call for him to step down as &#8220;tone-deaf.&#8221; &#8220;With all due respect to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;tone deaf&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23468,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464\/revisions\/23468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}