The disintegration continues. The latest revelation about the Trudeau Liberals’ blindness to Chinese election meddling is that then-public safety and emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair took months to grant CSIS a warrant to monitor election activities by former Ontario cabinet minister infamous for his links to communist China. And they still have no idea how to respond.
A classic example is the spring 1940 Fall of France. A combination of factors from arrogance to disdain for modern communications technology to old-tyme ineptitude left French commanders reacting to where German forces had been several days ago, not where they were now… until the latter became “Paris” and the reaction was “We surrender.”
It’s also surprisingly common in political scandals, especially involving traditionally successful parties and people. Caught off balance, they apply outdated responses to situations they never catch up with and, like fuddled generals, send vital forces into positions where they are predictably cut off and destroyed.
Here the Liberals were hit by a Globe and Mail story bluntly saying “Michael Chan … has for years been a national-security target of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service because of alleged links to China’s Toronto consulate and association with proxies of Beijing” and “CSIS regarded Mr. Chan as a national-security target and sought a section 21 warrant under the CSIS Act in early 2021.” But Blair waited four months to sign off, too late to monitor “the long-time Liberal Party kingpin” in the 2021 election.
Specifically, lest you think I paraphrase unfairly, “the reporting by The Globe and Mail is factually incorrect. I will not and cannot comment on specific cases, however, during my time as Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, all warrant applications were reviewed with due diligence. They were signed expeditiously. No warrant application ever took as long as four months for approval. The signing of a warrant under the CSIS Act is a very serious matter and further operational questions should be directed to CSIS.”
The Liberals are. With problems erupting on many fronts, I wrote in The Epoch Times two weeks ago, their early May national convention theme should have been “Still progressive, but older and wiser,” not “Only enemies could criticize our brilliant leader.” But they still don’t get it. It’s “inside the loop” for them.
If Blair had said I’m sorry, this story was substantially true and part of our fumbling this whole file badly, he could credibly have claimed they were now taking serious action. Instead he went nyah nyah go whistle at CSIS for details, not grasping that CSIS has been reduced to leaking this stuff to the press for months because they can’t get the Liberals to take it seriously, and that his response guarantees they’ll feed us more jaw-dropping details, still inside the Liberals’ OODA loop.
Thus the disintegration will continue until Ottawa falls. To the citizens, not China, I hope.