Inside the House of Commons, there would be elected officials who could be described as sold to foreign powers.
This doesn’t come from a leaked media report or from an anonymous Source.
The information is contained in the report of the Committee of Parliamentarians on National Security and Intelligence.
These deputies and senators concluded that “certain parliamentarians are, according to the intelligence services, half-willing or half-willing participants in the efforts of foreign states to interfere in the country’s politics.”
How? In particular, by accepting money from foreign governments or providing foreign diplomats with information about their colleagues to manipulate them.
Their names and number remain secret.
But these allegations are serious!
They are in addition to the numerous leaks from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the various reports which have confirmed to us that there was foreign interference during the elections.
The committee also tells us that China and India intervened during the Conservative Party leadership race and that Pierre Poilievre’s party only learned of this with the publication of the report.
Rightly, the committee blames the Trudeau government for not putting in place measures to raise awareness and inform parliamentarians!
Since then, the Trudeau government has repeated somewhat empty lines of communication: we must not be naive, we take this seriously…
But…
“There are elements with which the government respectfully disagrees,” said Dominic Leblanc, Minister of Public Security.
He even describes the committee’s exercise as ill-advised!
We know that the Trudeau government and the intelligence services do not get along.
But why have an intelligence service and keep it in its current form if we do not agree with its conclusions?
Do we really need it?
We ask ourselves a bit of the same question about the public service.
Why does it continue to grow while more and more public funds are spent on external firms?
Departments and agencies spent $8.3 billion on professional service contracts.
The Auditor General’s report on the McKinsey firm tells us that we do not even know if the government got its money’s worth.
Why were contracts necessary? Did we receive all the services we paid for? We do not know!
In addition, 70% of the 97 contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company from 2011 to 2023, worth $209 million, were awarded without calls for tender.
The government doesn’t even follow its own rules!
If we were rolling in gold, getting crazy rich, we could shrug our shoulders and move on!
But public finances are in a lamentable state: the deficit forecast at 40 billion may ultimately exceed 50 billion!
This is very worrying.
