The buck stops where? Experts urge party leaders to be accountable for NSICOP report findings

'Much more leadership and proactive solution-making has to come from parliamentarians themselves, from political parties, and from the government,' says UOttawa professor Thomas Juneau.
Shifting responsibility to the Foreign Interference Commission to parse the headline-grabbing report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, chaired by Liberal MP David McGuinty, is an inadequate solution, according to national security observers.

As two party leaders offer opposing readings of an unredacted report on foreign interference, national security observers say it is up to parliamentarians to be more accountable for their own houses as MPs shift responsibility to the public inquiry commissioner.

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