{"id":26587,"date":"2024-06-13T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T23:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26587"},"modified":"2024-06-13T23:57:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T23:57:23","slug":"alarmedrelievedwittingly-ignorantwittingly-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26587","title":{"rendered":"Alarmed,relieved,wittingly ignorant,wittingly silent&#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<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>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&nbsp;document alleging, based on intelligence, that some parliamentarians have been&nbsp;&#8220;semi-witting or witting&#8221; participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian&nbsp;politics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh<\/em><\/strong> says,\u201c<strong>I am more alarmed <\/strong>today than I was yesterday after having read the report,\u201d Mr. Singh said. \u201cWhat is clear to me is that Justin Trudeau knew and didn\u2019t act, while Pierre Poilievre doesn\u2019t even want to know about serious allegations touching his party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26600\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Singh.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Singh-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Singh-768x570.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><em>Green Party Leader Elizabeth May<\/em><\/strong> says she&#8217;s read the\u00a0original version of a highly-publicized intelligence watchdog&#8217;s report on foreign interference and she doesn&#8217;t believe any of her House of Commons colleagues knowingly betrayed their country.&#8221;There is no list of MPs who have shown disloyalty to Canada,&#8221; she said. &#8220;<strong>I am vastly relieved<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-E-May-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26601\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-E-May-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-E-May-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-E-May-768x989.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-E-May.jpg 900w\" 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><strong><em>Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre<\/em><\/strong> is the sole party leader forgoing access to classified report on foreign interference.He <strong>remains wittingly ignorant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-P-Poilievre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26599\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-P-Poilievre.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-P-Poilievre-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-P-Poilievre-768x511.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><em>Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau<\/em><\/strong> <strong>remains wittingly silent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Trudeau-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26603\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Trudeau-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Trudeau-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-J-Trudeau-1-768x543.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><em>Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet Leader of the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0has not commented to date upon accessing the classified document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-YF-Blanchet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26602\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-YF-Blanchet.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-YF-Blanchet-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Court-Painter-YF-Blanchet-768x428.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;document alleging, based on intelligence, that some parliamentarians have been&nbsp;&#8220;semi-witting or witting&#8221; participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in Canadian&nbsp;politics. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says,\u201cI am more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26587\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alarmed,relieved,wittingly ignorant,wittingly silent&#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-26587","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\/26587","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=26587"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26605,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587\/revisions\/26605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}