John Robson: Elite Pushback Against a Canadian Foreign Agent Registry Is a Ruse
Commentary
A news feed just offered me a “historic election” in Turkey. But they don’t have such things there. Cemeteries are full of indispensable men, and newspaper “morgues” of crucial events now forgotten and unimportant then. Whereas Canada really faces a historic moment with regard to foreign meddling.
David Johnston is astounded that we won’t simply trust him that there’s nothing to see here and if there is we shouldn’t see it. Why, he once wrote a book called “Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country.” But an elite pushback against a foreign agent registry mysteriously erupting just when the harsh spotlight turns on China isn’t one of them….