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A Pickering MP’s response of “Boo hoo, get over it” to a requirement for the discharge of names cited in a cross-party safety report on overseas interference has drawn the ire of Canadians on social media channels.
Pickering-Uxbridge MP Jennifer O’Connell, who sits on the Standing Committee on Public Security and is the Minister’s Parliamentary Secretary, made the feedback within the Home of Commons after the Conservatives known as for the discharge of names cited within the report launched Monday by the Nationwide Safety and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, a gaggle of MPs and senators with prime safety clearances, that alleges some unnamed parliamentarians collaborated with overseas governments.
O’Connell known as a tweet from an Ottawa reporter calling her out for her feedback a “mischaracterization.”
“I was responding to frustrated Conservative MPs complaining with points of order because their juvenile, theatrical attempts to generate dishonest social media clips failed spectacularly.”
Pickering-Uxbridge MP Jennifer O’Connell
The response from the general public, nevertheless, was lower than constructive:
“Arrogance and entitlement,” was one retort, whereas one other questioned O’Connell’s selection of tone. “Getting Grade 10 sassy about possible traitors to Canada seems just a little unserious.” A 3rd remark made implications about who’s responsible of political interference, a theme that devolved into unfounded accusations and assumptions and partisan politics additional down the thread.
“Why wouldn’t any honest politician want to know the names?”
There’s the rub, after all, as MPs and Senators who might have conspired with overseas pursuits cannot be named till they’ve been investigated and proof is supplied.
It’s doable responsible parliamentarians would come from either side of the Home, and regardless of the rhetoric expressed on the ground, Conservative MPs aren’t speaking publicly concerning the problem both, and federal chief Pierre Poilievre continues to be refusing to bear the safety clearance vetting course of.
The report was compiled after committee members reviewed info and intelligence gathered by ten federal our bodies, together with the RCMP, CSIS, the Division of Justice and Elections Canada.
The stories cites China and India because the “most active perpetrators” within the alleged affair.
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