I don't really know how independent these commissions really are or if they're immune to being portrayed as corrupt in and of themselves or weaponized for political traction. I mean Ottawa has the NSICOP that is modeled on the national security commissions of other countries, but the Conservatives still managed to turn it into a conspiracy narrative about Trudeau personally redacting material with a Sharpie like Donald Trump.
The ethics commissioner/committee is similarly a farce; I know you have your beefs with Trudeau but in all honesty, none of the supposed scandals or "infractions" that have been blown up out of proportion really meet the standard of an Adscam or Duffygate. They're more like Benghazis, used as smear campaigns and to drum up fundraising videos for opposition partisans play-acting as prosecutors in a Dick Wolf drama about the O.J. trial.
I would hope that an ICAC can be professional and avoid sensationalistic media spectacle. Recent examples being Poilievre throwing carbon copy papers around in a public temper tantrum, JWR's 10-hour jeremiad where she droned on about obscure British legalese and how the mean PM hurt her feelings, or the PHAC chair being hauled before a surreal Kafkaesque star chamber to face baseless scolding that's he's helping the government cover up "Chinese espionage." Take these matters out of the hands of immature and self-interested MPs and let them get back to discussing valid policy matters, instead of Margaret Trudeau's tax returns or Chrystia Freeland's family tree.
Every province in Canada needs an Independent Commission Against Corruption. Alberta especially. We don’t even find out about all the festering cases here and if the government gets caught, they just make their behaviour legal.
I don't really know how independent these commissions really are or if they're immune to being portrayed as corrupt in and of themselves or weaponized for political traction. I mean Ottawa has the NSICOP that is modeled on the national security commissions of other countries, but the Conservatives still managed to turn it into a conspiracy narrative about Trudeau personally redacting material with a Sharpie like Donald Trump.
The ethics commissioner/committee is similarly a farce; I know you have your beefs with Trudeau but in all honesty, none of the supposed scandals or "infractions" that have been blown up out of proportion really meet the standard of an Adscam or Duffygate. They're more like Benghazis, used as smear campaigns and to drum up fundraising videos for opposition partisans play-acting as prosecutors in a Dick Wolf drama about the O.J. trial.
I would hope that an ICAC can be professional and avoid sensationalistic media spectacle. Recent examples being Poilievre throwing carbon copy papers around in a public temper tantrum, JWR's 10-hour jeremiad where she droned on about obscure British legalese and how the mean PM hurt her feelings, or the PHAC chair being hauled before a surreal Kafkaesque star chamber to face baseless scolding that's he's helping the government cover up "Chinese espionage." Take these matters out of the hands of immature and self-interested MPs and let them get back to discussing valid policy matters, instead of Margaret Trudeau's tax returns or Chrystia Freeland's family tree.
Every province in Canada needs an Independent Commission Against Corruption. Alberta especially. We don’t even find out about all the festering cases here and if the government gets caught, they just make their behaviour legal.