Rex Murphy: Canada has a John le Carré cabinet. They have secrets, too, and ways to keep them. Secrets on which the future of governments may hang, and the peace of the populace put in peril, should they be revealed. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy — you may catch the latest edition, just up from the Chateau Laurier in some of the old buildings on the knoll.
Mr. Humphreys, my colleague, tells us that the Trudeau government has put a 20-year seal on the deliberations that led to Canada’s “mandatory hotel rules.”
Now we all know what the rules are. That’s not a secret. You’re stopped at the airport, brusquely ordered to go to a hotel, stay for three days at your own expense and eat plastic-wrapped sandwiches, all for an exercise many people view of dubious value.
The rules are known. However, to hear of the thinking that went behind them, to have citations from the cluster of high-powered brains around the cabinet table that gave them birth — this is a threat to Canada’s national security for the next 20 years. (It would present a greater threat than opening the whole WE Charity file. That’s how serious this is.)
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