Die unverhohlene Verachtung der Liberalen für das Parlament ist sichtbar

“The power to order the production of documents is essential to Parliament’s role as a check on the government. Without it, it cannot do the work it was created to do. The Liberal government’s efforts to subvert that power is a direct attack on Parliament and a show of contempt for the institution.

The government is also displaying a lack respect for Parliament with its refusal to explain why it took 54 days for former public safety minister Bill Blair to sign off on a CSIS warrant to wiretap Michael Chan, a powerful Liberal organizer who became a national-security target over alleged links to the Chinese government.

Neither Mr. Blair nor his former chief of staff have explained the bizarre delay, although Mr. Blair says he signed the warrant as soon as it landed on his desk.

The Liberals are also now trying to shut down, or severely limit, the work of a parliamentary committee that investigates Canada-China relations. The government introduced a motion last week calling for the committee to end its weekly meetings and be limited to meeting over “urgent matters.”

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Here’s the facts, and they are not in dispute:

* The Liberals created a billion dollar fund to spur investment in green technologies and appointed a board of well-connected Liberals to oversee it.
* A whistleblower testified — and audits have corroborated— that tens and possibly hundreds of millions of dollars were awarded by board members to themselves with virtually no controls or oversight, often to projects that had nothing whatsoever to do with the fund’s purpose.
* After the whistleblower’s testimony the Liberals quietly shut the whole thing down.
* The RCMP is investigating.
* Recently, the CPC, NDP and BQ joined together to exercise their lawful Parliamentary privilege to require the Liberals to produce, unredacted, all documents related to this fund. The Liberals refuse to do so. No less than the Liberal Speaker of the House has ruled that the Liberals are illegally defying this requirement.

Every attempt to make this whole thing about the Conservatives — as the Liberal House Leader has repeatedly attempted to do — is gaslighting in its purest form. Every time a Liberal politician or a journalist or pundit tries to make this issue about blocking the activity of the house or preventing the government from doing its job is similarly doing nothing but providing a smokescreen for the Liberals to once again avoid taking any accountability for their own actions.

The business of the House could resume tomorrow if the Liberals stopped illegally defying the order of Parliament and produced all the documents related to this scandal. That they won’t is the *only* true story here.

This, by the way, is the third time the Liberals have tried to defy the House in this way. The first was to stymie the investigation into the WE scandal by proroguing parliament. Next was the Winnipeg lab breech, where two individuals who turned out to be Chinese agents were allowed to essentially pillage information and samples from Canada’s only level-4 biological research facility, and send them on to China. The Liberals called an election to avoid complying with that order of the House.

Can there be any doubt that what these documents contain would be exceptionally damaging to the Liberal Party?