David Johnston resigns as special rapporteur on foreign interference



David Johnston says he has decided to step down from the role of special rapporteur. In a resignation letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Johnston said his role has become too muddled in political controversy for him to continue.

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23 thoughts on “David Johnston resigns as special rapporteur on foreign interference”

  1. Media- “sorry, we are all SCRAMBLING to react to this.” Why would you scramble to react? OHHH you mean scrambling to get a NARRATIVE out to your gullible audiences. Mmhhmm

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  2. CBC is BS news – they helped elect Trudeau and Singh – Global News doesn't care about Canadians or Canada – absolute Garbage – Clown News + Clown Leaders = Clown Nation

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  3. Oohhhh ok it's the fault of partisanship and not the blatant appearance of a conflict of interest? No lawyer worth his salt would accept the position and not see it as an apparent conflict.

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  4. So it is the conservatives fault that they pointed out all the conflicts of interest. Thank god you explained it perfectly. Liberals good conservatives bad got it. Thanks CBC great reporting as always.

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  5. There never should have been a made up position like a puppeteur to avoid government transparency.

    Typically hiding as much as humanly possible from Canadians, Trudeau and his unethical merry members are forever in damage control mode.

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  6. All Liberals need to resign because they are robbing Canadians with there current 41 cent per liter carbon tax. Carbon tax is raising inflation even higher. Thanks Liberals for screwing all Canadians.. NDP is the same since they have not complained about the carbon tax.

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