Commentary
There can be a tendency among the public to write off political scandals as nothing more than partisan infighting, and it’s often an understandable tendency.
These days politicians and their proxies turn every little misstep made by their opponents into the biggest of dramas, demanding inquiries and resignations for things that don’t even register in the minds of the public. Sometimes the noise that comes from political circles probably seems to people as just that, noise.
But no one should write off the latest news about the Chinese Communist Party’s interference in Canadian elections as the scandal of the day. It’s far bigger and much more wide-reaching than that. It must be taken seriously by everyone, including the intended beneficiary of this interference—the federal Liberal government….