Matt Gurney: Our government takes yet another reality punch to the face
It seems as though Canadian institutions are fundamentally incapable of learning from past mistakes.
By: Matt Gurney
The Canadian government can't communicate with itself. It needs to fix this. But it can't. Or at least, it hasn't so far, despite depressingly ample opportunity.
Examples abound, but we were handed a hell of a new one this week. On Monday, the Globe and Mail's dynamic duo of Robert Fife and Steven Chase dropped another one of their bombshells regarding China's meddling and interference with Canadian democracy. The details here are important so give me a minute to recap them: in 2020, Canadian legislators joined with 200 others from across the free world in a new democratic organization aimed at responding to Chinese expansionism. The group is called the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, or IPAC, and includes 18 Canadians, drawn from across the political spectrum and from both the House and Senate. In 2022, the American Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that a hacking group linked to China was targeting some of the legislators, including Canadians. The FBI quickly alerted Canadian intelligence officials and then ...
...well, this next part is the problem, as you probably guessed. What happened next, to quote the old song, ain't exactly clear. But none of it looks good.