Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing federal opposition parties of playing “partisan games” as the House of Commons prepares to vote on an NDP motion that, if passed, will call upon the Liberal government to remove David Johnston as the special rapporteur on foreign election interference.
Trudeau’s comments come amid refusals and delays by all opposition leaders to receive briefings of the secret intelligence information that Johnston says led him to recommend against calling for a public inquiry into foreign interference in his first report released on May 23.
“What we’ve highlighted is that that intelligence is available for the leaders of the opposition parties to avail themselves of, to understand what underpins the very good report that Mr. Johnston put out,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on May 31….