Ivison: The Public Prosecution Service of Canada, the RCMP, the Department of National Defence and, perhaps most of all, the Liberal government all emerge from this saga much diminished. The prime minister, the justice minister, the director of public prosecutions and even the lawyer for the defence denied there had been any political interference involved in ending a case that could have proven damaging to the Liberal Party’s electoral fortunes. Few appear to believe them in the aftermath of the SNC debacle. The institutional damage has been immense — not least to DND, where, testimony revealed, some staffers obstructed Norman’s ability to defend himself by hiding records that might have helped his case.
The last thing this government needed were more allegations of incompetence and political interference in the justice system. It has just been engulfed by a veritable Niagara of both.
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