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RSS FeedsTrudeau to keep Wernick on election interference file, despite opposition misgivings
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

9 march 2019 19:23:47

 
Trudeau to keep Wernick on election interference file, despite opposition misgivings
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


OTTAWA—The Liberal government will keep the country’s top bureaucrat as the person ultimately responsible for alerting Canadians to foreign interference in the 2019 election, despite the opposition parties’ lost confidence in Michael Wernick’s neutrality.Cameron Ahmad, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s deputy director of communications, told the Star Saturday they’ll keep Privy Council Clerk Wernick on the five-person committee tasked with assessing intelligence and sounding the alarm if foreign powers attempt to influence Canadians’ vote.The two main opposition parties, the Conservatives and New Democrats, told the Star this week they no longer trust Wernick to serve on that committee — accusing him of partisanship after two tumultuous appearances at the House of Commons’ justice committee on the SNC-Lavalin affair.The Liberal support for Wernick despite the opposition’s lost confidence sets up a potential showdown between the non-partisan public service and intelligence community and the opposition parties.In two committee appearances over two weeks, Wernick repeatedly stressed that he has the highest security clearance in Canada and he is extremely concerned about foreign intervention in the upcoming federal election.He has been criticized by opposition MPs as well as academics for making the claim that he fears a politician will be assassinated on the campaign trail. Wernick was before the committee to testify on the SNC-Lavalin affair that has embroiled the Liberal government for a month, not on electoral interference or potential assassinations.Wesley Wark, one of Canada’s top scholars on security and intelligence matters, took Wernick to task in a column for using alarming language — the kind typically avoided by intelligence professionals when describing potential threats.In a defiant speech in front of the committee on Wednesday, Wernick said he stood by every word.“If that was ...


 
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