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Justin Trudeau and his desperate band of Liberals want to distract you.

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They want you to believe that the biggest threat to Canada from foreign interference is that Pierre Poilievre does not obtain the security clearance to read a secret report on the issue.

It’s not that China and other countries have been interfering in Canadian democracy for years without the Trudeau government taking any action to resolve the problem.

“Why doesn’t the leader of the Conservative Party get his security clearance? Trudeau asked in response to a question from Poilievre on Wednesday.

Poilievre didn’t ask Trudeau about foreign interference, he asked about the green slush fund and the $400 million in contracts “awarded by the Liberals to their own companies.” This is a serious problem: 186 conflicts of interest were found in a program that the Liberals shut down following a scathing audit.

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Trudeau didn’t want to talk about this issue, so he brought up Poilievre and his security clearance. In fact, the Liberals raised the issue 16 times on Wednesday, and Trudeau raised it eight times himself.

Liberals have since mocked conspiracy theorists in their ranks and online, saying in statements and videos on social media that Poilievre won’t get his security clearance because he can’t pass. It’s a completely baseless claim, Poilievre has had top secret clearance in the past, but she’s popular with the TruAnon base that liberals court online.

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Poilievre was clear: he believes that receiving the full information on the report on foreign interference from the Committee of Parliamentarians on National Security and Intelligence would silence him. This view is not unreasonable and has been supported by Tom Mulcair, former leader of the Opposition and the federal NDP.

But let’s be realistic on the issue of foreign interference: if there is a leader who poses a problem, it is Justin Trudeau and not Pierre Poilievre.

Trudeau, as Prime Minister, has had access to all the information about foreign interference for years and has failed to act on it. In September 2019, he was even informed of concerns raised by CSIS that one of its candidates had received help from China to secure his appointment.

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Trudeau did not follow up on this information. It did not stop Han Dong, who denied knowledge of China’s aid, from presenting himself as a liberal. Trudeau never followed up on these allegations, and Dong ran as a Liberal again in 2021.

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We know that no one in the Liberal government thought to inform Conservative MP Michael Chong that he was being interfered with by China. Chong only discovered through media reports that Chinese officials in Canada were collecting information on his extended family in Hong Kong and passing it to security officials in Beijing.

In all this time, the Trudeau government has never expelled a Chinese diplomat for foreign interference. Liberals simply accepted help from Beijing and looked the other way.

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When CSIS wanted a warrant to tap the phones and vehicles used by Liberal fundraiser and former Ontario Liberal minister Michael Chan, the Trudeau government refused. It took 54 days for the warrant request to be approved by then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, although most warrants were signed within 4 to 8 days.

The Liberals claim that there is no partisan consideration in this delay, but that is simply not credible. This delay seriously hampered the CSIS investigation and may have helped protect key Liberals.

While Trudeau and his team claim that Poilievre is the problem and that he cannot pass a security check, the significant difference between the two men is how they react to this question.

Trudeau is doing everything he can to prevent the public from knowing the whole truth. Poilievre demands that the names of all MPs involved in foreign interference be made public.

What else do you need to know?

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