If the names of senators and MPs suspected of foreign influence were released, they would be ruined, possibly without appropriate proof
It’s a rare thing when political debate in this country changes anyone’s mind. Speeches are not meant to be persuasive; they are delivered to confirm the prejudices of partisans.
Yet, at the parliamentary public safety committee on Thursday, Dominic LeBlanc made a convincing case for not releasing the names of MPs and senators who were named in the redacted National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report released earlier this week.
The report said that a number of unnamed “semi-witting or witting” MPs and senators helped foreign states to the detriment of Canada’s democracy and national security.
Garbage. The public has a right to know. Let God sort them out.
