Patience is a virtue that mostly uses most columnists.
Too often, writers are consumed urgently here and now. As a result, they do not manage to look back and dedicate the time and space to important topics that once caught a critical eye.
The second, broader and much more important failure of journalists and newspaper organizations – big and small – for which they work a stubborn rejection to make honest and tangible changes in the damage they have caused people – famous and unknown – reporting that turns out to be incorrect and wrong.
Almost two years ago I wrote many columns A warning that the hysteria with a racist that caught Canada. A gentle napan rabid beat loyalty to dedicated copsLast General Governor of Canada, as well as Chinese-Canadian nationals, including sitting parliamentarians.
This deep corrosive, “yellow Peril” similar to Furore largely abolished a handful of bushy journalists who make hand gloves, doubt, several so-called “intelligence officers”-is always served or retired.
The grave of spy spies, which supplied the clips of the cropped “intelligence” by gullible letters, presented sharp accusations of whole ethnic communities and several reputable figures that, of course, were obliged to publicly declare their innocence in the exhaustion of emotional and financial costs while their Chishire – The accusers like Kat have remained in pleasant shadows-their gorge salaries and pensions intact.
For two years, the hyperbolic manual work of this compound of the trembling spies and reliable journalists has dominated the political and media landscape of Canada.
Spigot of story Among other wicked escapades, the parliament has inserted the “traitor” nest, who drew with foreign forces to undermine Canadian democracy; a liberal member of parliament [MP] Chinese origin prevented diplomatic attempts to release two Canadians closed in China on suspicion of spying; And Beijing led a huge political campaign of “interference” to change the outcome of at least two federal choices.
The stories of insidious and breathless trembling were picked up by other media eager to leave them behind and gave prolonged life and legitimacy by many columnists who know little about the underground world of spying, pedestrian types that settled it or settled or settled or inhabited or inhabited by it or inhabit it either inhabits it or settle it or settle it or inhabit it by pedestrian types or how “intelligence” is collected and can be shaped to create an illusion of credibility.
At the end of January, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue-Koja, led by the investigation, launched sensational reports- released Her discoveries after hearing many witnesses and examined thousands of classified documents over 15 months.
The conclusions of the commissioner represent the curse accusation of journalists and the main domestic news that was supposed to treat their desired sources with much more caution and skepticism, instead of accepting, almost literally, their complacency interpretation and use of selective secrets to follow the personal agenda at the expense of the reputation of honorable Canadians and public interest.
Hogue has made a categorical rejection of all major charges presented by the Globe and Mail-Canadian self-“national” record newspaper-and second national sequel, Global News.
The commissioner “did not find evidence” of any “traitor” lurking in parliament or that the Canadian democratic institutions were glued or “seriously affected by” any “interference”.
“I have not found any evidence that any choice has swung the foreign actor,” she wrote.
Hogue added that there may have been “attempts to roar the affection of the parliamentarians …[but] The phenomenon remains marginal and mainly ineffective. “
“No reason,” she said, “for a widespread alarm.”
This “alarm” picked up the cover and top politicians and journalists who depended on it, who together convinced many Canadians that China, in particular, represented the existential threat of the sovereignty of the nation and the integrity of its “sacros” choices.
Hogue, in fact, wrote that the alleged threat was “overstated”.
According to her merit, the commissioner deleted a stain that endured the liberal MP Han Dong with Grace and challenged himself with an uncompromising determination to clean his good name.
She rejected the dubious, thinly obtained stories, accusing Dong of contacting Chinese diplomats with the intention of stopping the release of two Canadians – Michael Kovrig and Michael Spovora – accused of spying on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – as unambiguously false.
“Classified information is confirmed by Mr. Dong’s denial,” she wrote, “the statement that he suggested that PRC should give up the release of Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spovora.” And that “[Mr. Dong] I did not suggest that Prc expanded his detention. “
The commissioner condemned the severe, permanent damage that a spy store may cause in a “unverified intelligence service” with easily convinced journalists.
“Examples such as these show why it would be completely unfair to rely on unverified intelligence to publicly mark the individual traitor parliamentary,” Hogue wrote. “This would have a deep impact on the individual, one that cannot be justified in the light of the weakness of intelligence.”
In a statement, dong wanted – Just rightly – to “global news … they pull their false stories about me and apologize for the damage they have done.”
To this day, as far as I know, Global News has not withdrawn stories or apologized.
That’s shameful.
Hogue confirmed the thrust of my testimony to the various committees of the Community House in the spring of 2023 where I am warned Parliamentary who cautiously treated “revelation” because “intelligence” is not far from evidence.
In this critical regard, the commissioner warned of “inherent limitations”, incompleteness and lack of “intelligence”.
“Just because intelligence says he does not do something true, accurate or complete,” Hogue wrote. “The credibility of the source can also be worrying. Sources can, for example, deliberately seduce their audience. “
Valumin’s report of the Quebec Appellate Court mirrored in the syllable of David Johnston’s judgment, a General Governor of Canada who appointed Prime Minister Justina Trudeauu a “special reporter” to explore the claims of China’s involvement.
Her study was only longer than his.
But amazing, Johnston’s impeccable character, loyalty to Canada and independence came under a sustainable and awful attack that opponent politicians and media personality are more interested in “scandal” than the truth.
Globe and mail led to a collection on this incredible result.
I was appalled when the conservative MP asked another witness during the hearing of the Committee if the Queen’s former representative was a closet of the Chinese “assets”.
The unfounded insinuations and smeared culminated in Johnston’s resignation as a “special reporter”.
Now, Hogue’s report stands as the revenge of Johnston’s intelligent, sober and intentional operation of the size of the market.
Johnston is also owed an apology.
Yet the impressed editorial writer of the Globe insisted This Hogue committed a “service” “brave people within the Canadian intelligence community” who “worried that the Government Trudeau was ignoring the threat of a federal protuberance system.”
The old Globe hand told me that the editors of the paper were disappointed with Hogue’s exhaustive rating of reports and that consensus among journalists inside and outside her isolated orbit was that they were “played by” those “brave” Spooks who have, like an upset band columnist who throws Chinese, Suddenly he disappeared.
In the meantime, the president of the United States – the favorite and closest neighbors in Canada – was busy with plans to throw out and convert a large white, mostly uninhabited north into the US 51.
Obviously, the Canadian “brave” spies were too preoccupied with pointing the indictment on Beijing to notice a real and present danger nearby.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial stance of Al Jazeera.
