Opinion: Canada needs a public inquiry into Trudeau’s SNC-Lavalin controversy. Now.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a fireside chat at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Mineral Exploration and Mining Convention in Toronto on Tuesday. By David Moscrop David Moscrop Canadian politics Email Bio Follow Contributing columnist March 7 at 10:40 AM Political life in democratic societies is difficult because politics within a system of self-government demands a lot of elected representatives and public officials.
These testimonies left plenty of questions unanswered, and a chasm between what Wilson-Raybould has said and what Butts and Wernick have said — a chasm that must be bridged with specifics about who knew what, what they intended, and how and when they went about trying to secure those intentions. It also seems that all of the people involved believed that they were doing the right thing for a country they care about, although given corporate coziness in Ottawa, there may have been other familiarities that affected judgments.
Then, on Thursday morning, Trudeau tried to address the matter in a short news conference in which he did not apologize or admit wrongdoing. Instead, he focused on “lessons" learned and, encouragingly, the prospect of administrative reform and splitting the attorney general and justice minister roles. But his address failed to answer any of the open questions hanging over the entire controversy.
Public inquiries ought to be extraordinary occurrences. But with the current controversy, the public interest — including the maintenance of public trust in democratic institutions — calls for something extraordinary.
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