The Dangers of Public Inquiries and Unfounded Allegations

This week the government’s long-awaited report on foreign interference will drop. Will it tell us if Canada has a traitor problem?

Over the last two years there’s been a slew of headlines around allegedly compromised members of parliament, the machinations of nefarious foreign governments, scorched reputations, the muck has been raked and the mud slung. All of our major political parties have come under fire. And the source of that fire has run the gamut from the upper echelons of CSIS to TikTok bottom feeders. And after all that we still know surprisingly little. 

So will this week’s government report give us any answers? Are there traitors? Has there been treason?

Jesse sits down with Professor Wesley Wark to find out. Wark is a senior fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation and a fellow with the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He served on the PM’s Advisory Council on National Security and he provided advice to the minister of public safety on national security legislation and policy.

Host: Jesse Brown

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Further reading:

• https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/canadian-politicians-who-commit-treason-should-go-to-jail/article_3429f6b4-2441-11ef-817e-573af7605f34.html
• https://wesleywark.substack.com/p/a-pifi-wish-list
• https://globalnews.ca/tag/han-dong/
• https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trudeau-says-he-has-list-of-conservatives-vulnerable-to-or-engaged-in-foreign-interference/

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