Setting terms of foreign interference inquiry cools political temperature on process but not substance, say observers

‘How we're going to get answers may be cooled down, but the subject matter itself is still very much a live wire,’ says former Conservative staffer Yaroslav Baran.

On Sept. 7, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced that the major federal parties had reached an agreement on the terms and commissioner for a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canadian elections.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

September 13, 2023

Public inquiries are often “a sign of the end of an era,” and the coming inquiry on foreign interference means that the Liberals must continue to manage that issue on a day-to-day basis this fall, says former Liberal staffer Jeremy Ghio.

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