Gould never did get an answer - but it wasn't because she didn't try.

By Staff

October 23rd, 2024

BURLINGTON, ON

 

Here is what Burlington MP Karina Gould had to say in the House of Commons yesterday.

October 22nd, 2:55 p.m.

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Burlington MP Karina Gould speaking in the House of Commons

Mr. Speaker, Canadians expect police to follow due process. Let me be perfectly clear: The government obviously complies with anything that follows due process. Canadians also expect their leaders to act in the best interest of Canadians, not to protect their own partisan interests.

Why is that member, and all members of the Conservative Party, covering up for the Leader of the Opposition, who is refusing to get his security clearance? It is easy to get. All the other members have done it. When will the Leader of the Opposition get it?

Mr. Speaker, the member gets up every day and says things that are simply not true. What he will not answer is why his leader is refusing to get a security clearance. That is the real question on every Canadian’s mind right now.

While we are facing a time when we have to put the country first and stand up for Canadians, the Leader of the Opposition is hiding something from Canadians. What is it, and why is it stopping him from getting his security clearance?

October 22nd, 3 p.m.

Mr. Speaker, once again, it is disappointing that the Conservatives are not telling the truth on this issue.

What is even more appalling and what Canadians are wondering is why the Leader of the Opposition is not getting his security clearance. Is it because he has something to hide? Why is he refusing to get his security clearance? He must have something to hide, because it is so easy to get it.

Mr. Speaker, I expect my hon. colleague on the other side to at least be honest with the facts. What was said was that this motion was highly unusual and it should be referred to committee for study. We support that. It is only the Conservatives who are obstructing their own obstruction. This is unsurprising because they are also trying to cover up their own leader’s refusal to get his security clearance.

All of the other leaders of the political parties in the House have done that. Canadians want to know why. What is he hiding, and what is he trying to protect?

Gould never did get an answer – but it wasn’t because she didn’t try.

 

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14 comments to Gould never did get an answer – but it wasn’t because she didn’t try.

  • David

    I’m surprised that no one has mentioned the role of His Majesties Privy Council and its role and membership in Canada’s parliamentary system, I had to do a refresh myself, but my question still is, if the names on that list of supposedly compromised MPs are not being released, and Justin Trudeau is as listed a member of the privy council, it’s up to him if he deems that that information is critical enough to warrant any further action, Poilievre’s involvement, would maybe if warranted, be a discretionary move by the PM if the level of security risk to Canada was deemed to be slight.
    My concern is that all these distractions get drawn out by non-answers from the government to what seems to be easy questions to answer, after all, The Official Opposition is viewed as the caucus tasked with keeping the government in check.

  • Millicent Corrigan

    This might sound outthere but stranger things have happened. Could it be something related to his wife???Did she do all the proper documentation to come legally to Canada. Curioser and curioser? She seems a lovely lady and I don’t care about how she came here. I just don’t get the secrecy. Kudos to Karina for continuing to pose this question.

  • Rod

    Thank you for sharing this vital information with us. I know the Trudeau governments immigration policies have caused the housing affordability crisis. I know the out of control borrowing and spending has devalued my life savings. But, because PP won’t sign an agreement. An issue far more important than food prices or housing or my RRSP. I’ll be voting Liberal.

  • David-1

    Canadians understand fully why Poilievre is declining a security clearance on this matter. Canadians are wondering why Trudeau will not release the names of compromised individuals on that list. Gould: “While we are facing a time when we have to put the country first,” if it is as bad as she says, then the RCMP should investigate these individuals, why do they need Poilievre? As far as Gould never getting an answer, she now knows how it feels.

  • Carol Victor

    This is what we are in for..
    Trump like behavior from Poilievre….he is an arrogant, self serving, bombastic career politician whose personal power grab is more important to him than getting at the truth. His non compliance on this issue allows him to continue to brow beat the PM without boundaries.
    I don’t even know Conservatives who like him!

  • Philip

    Gould has been engaging in these partisan rants for the past several weeks. Even Tom Mulcair has recognized that if Poilievre gets the clearance you want, he gets muzzled. Your government can release the names and the entire NSICOP report any time you like–Trudeau has the power to release these names to the public but refuses. Why? Is it because he knows the names will show the complicity of your Liberal government in foreign interference.

    Trudeau’s performance during the foreign interference inquiry was shameful. In it, he insinuated, without saying so, that Conservatives were actively involved in foreign interference; however, his careful wording could just as easily shown that these Conservatives were victims of foreign interference during the 2019 and 2021 elections. This was the substance of much of the original G & M article from two years ago that exposed the major issue of foreign interference during a Canadian election. Interference that Trudeau was either wilfully blind to or he ignored since it was in his electoral interest.

    But Gould’s misinformation also extends to the government’s refusal to release unredacted documents to the House of Commons at the direction of the Speaker.
    “Canadians need to have faith in their government’s honesty and willingness to listen. That is why we committed to set a higher bar for openness and transparency in Ottawa. Government and its information must be open by default. Simply put, it is time to shine more light on government to make sure it remains focused on the people it was created to serve – you.”
    Karina should remember that quote– it was penned by Justin Trudeau on November 4, 2015. So where is the openness and transparency in the Foreign Interference Scandal, the SDTC Scandal, the SNC Lavalin Scandal, the WE Scandal and the Arrivescam Scandal? Perhaps Karina needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and reflect on LIBERAL HYPOCRISY.

    Finally, all of these diatribes by Karina Gould show one thing–she is there to serve Justin Trudeau, not her constituents in Burlington.

  • Penny

    What nonsense. I am certain that Mr. Poilievre has had to go through a security clearance. He wouldn’t be able to sit in Parliament without one.

    Perhaps an additional clearance was necessary to see certain documents and if he did he would not be able to bring this information to the public. There is a non-disclosure cause that comes into place with these security clearances.

    Talk about trying to turn the attention from the Liberals, many of whom want Justin Trudeau to resign.

    Let’s not forget her photo with Yaroslav Hunka, who fought with the Nazi’s in Ukraine during the second world war. Better yet when she stood up in Parliament and asked that this terrible faux pas not be included in the records.

    Have to wonder if she actually believes what she says or is she just fighting to keep her job?

  • Joe Gaetan

    Does anyone in the H.O.C answer questions? Give me a break, and why not just admit you are polishing Karina’s apple. The real issue is that the Liberals allowed this file to languish and pushing back on Poilievere is a distraction tactic.

    Editor’s note: Hey Putz! Did you just say I am polishing Gould’s apple? Does she know what I’m doing?

    • Bob

      Looks like Joe hit a nerve

      What the writer of this article failed to say was that this was Karinas answer from Pollievre asking why the government was illegally refusing to turn over the documents the house voted and the speaker agreed they were legally obligated to disclose. Rather than answer the question the future ex member of parliament for Burlington deflected to a question she quite well knows the answer to. Her leader, soon to be the ex Prime Minister of Canada could very well speak the names in the House of Commons as could the leader of the Greens and NDP with immunity yet neither has said anything about conservative members. Elizabeth May is on record as saying no names were released in her reading, so why is this even an issue save for deflection from a government in crisis.

      • Joe Gaetan

        By selectively only including some of the back and forth in the H.O.C, “staff” awkwardly tried to help Karina shine a light under her own bushel, my choice of apple polishing was metaphoric in nature.

  • Marshall

    Unfortunately, her blessed leader has less credibility than the leader of the opposition so anything said by a Liberal is ignored.

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