Public Safety Minister and staff needed time to get ‘comfortable’ with warrant targeting Liberal powerbroker, public inquiry hears

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-foreign-interference-inquiry-public-safety-minister-warrant

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  1. Sam Cooper has some wonderful reports on this very issue, It’s a shame his articles aren’t allowed

  2. Difficult-Yam-1347 on

    >”The public inquiry into foreign interference heard testimony Tuesday that it **took “some time” for then Public Safety minister Bill Blair** and his staff **to get “comfortable”** with authorizing an eavesdropping and entry warrant in 2021 directed at Liberal powerbroker Michael Chan.The inquiry has already heard that it **took 54 days for Mr. Blair to sign** the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warrant in the months leading up to the 2021 federal election campaign, a delay that the minister has reportedly blamed on his former chief of staff Zita Astravas.”

    >”Mr. Blair’s office declined to comment Tuesday. His press secretary Simon Lafortune said **Mr. Blair** will abstain from comment until he testifies Friday at the inquiry, headed by Justice Marie-Josée Hogue. As recently as last week he was blaming Ms. Astravas for the delay. **“I was not advised by my Chief of Staff of a pending warrant application until it was presented for my signature,”** 

    What will come of this lie from Blair? Probably nothing. See: SNC-Lavalin Affair, the WE Charity Scandal, the green slush fund, hiding the names of traitors.

  3. ghost_n_the_shell on

    I wonder how these folks sleep after selling out their country?

    I just want to take a minute and remind folks how hard the Liberals fought to avoid an inquiry.

  4. Or course, everybody gets to determine when their friends get investigated as matter of convenience, right?

    Knobs.

  5. Well it looks like the federal Liberals want to pull a move from the MB provincial Liberal party and…make themselves utterly un-electable for the next 20 years