Trudeau’s Special Rapporteur and personal friend who says there is no foreign interference in Canada receives an honorary doctorate from Nanjing University for his work on establishing Confucius Institutes abroad in 2012. They were later identified as national security risks.
You can tell why Justin Trudeau and David Johnston are friends. Johnston has focused more on criticizing the media then the government. When he does acknowledge "shortcomings" in the government, it's the public service and the "system" to blame, not Trudeau.
This is an unmitigated disaster. He is explaining at length why it is incumbent upon the public not to question his impartiality, rather than upon him as a public officeholder not to put the public in a position of having to wonder.
Former Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Mentor Frank Iacobucci says former Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Member David Johnston not in conflict of interest investigating issue of major political sensitivity to son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Is this even real life?!
https://twitter.com/RealAndyLeeShow/status/1661078679500521472
https://twitter.com/AndrewLawton/status/1661053051979939857
Erin O'Toole, Conservative leader during the last election, says special rapporteur only met with him as report was already being translated: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/erin-otoole-says-special-rapporteur-only-met-with-him-as-report-was-already-being-translated
This guy not only receives 2 Trudeau funded media paychecks, but his cousin is Trudeau's sister. Even he thinks this is bad https://twitter.com/acoyne/status/1661046426711867398
https://twitter.com/awudrick/status/1661067110427115572