Analysis | What would it take for Canada to have a ‘serious’ debate about foreign interference? – By Aaron Wherry (CBC News) / May 28, 2023
With accusations flying in all directions, Canadians’ confidence in our elections is in peril
Appearing in Winnipeg a day after David Johnston released his first report on foreign interference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed the word “serious.”
“I would simply ask Canadians, and indeed opposition leaders, to actually look at the substance of this very serious issue and take it with the seriousness it deserves,” he told reporters.
Trudeau’s appeal to seriousness is in keeping with his current line of attack against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre — the Liberal argument being that these are serious times that require serious leadership and ideas, and Poilievre offers neither.
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