John Robson: Attempts to Trivialize Chinese Election Meddling Will Have Serious Consequences
Commentary
Diversity, we are told monotonously, is what unites us in Canada. And it is good up to a point, indeed vital. But a society that is not united around certain principles, for instance that foreign tyrants subverting our elections is intolerable, will neither survive nor deserve to. So are we?
I see an ominous divide here. On one side are those, generally not fans of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who think his efforts to shrug off very specific intelligence agency warnings are failing before our very eyes. And on the other are those, including many Liberal partisans, who dismiss, mock, and even smear these warnings as racist….