David Johnston, super vetting government information consultant, bows out

Nobody ever said freeing-up Ottawa with so many government insiders afraid of public disclosures or having independent inquiries would be easy.

David Johnston, Independent Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference, appears at the Procedure and House Affairs Committee in West Block on June 6, 2023, to answer questions about foreign interference as calls for his resignation continued.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

June 15, 2023

OTTAWA—The biggest existential transparency crisis in years—the degree of China's penetration in Canada and its electoral process—came to a superficial head in the David Johnston episode.

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