THIS FARCE OF AN INQUIRY

  Rex Murphy:  You know why they are playing out this farce of an inquiry into the calling of the Emergencies Act? It’s because the statute that enables the act makes subsequent inquiry mandatory. And despite the hearty bypassing of parliamentary customs and conventions the Liberal-NDP government has enjoyed under the convenient umbrella offered by COVID, outright defiance on serious statutes has been, for now, off the agenda.
   But as for this inquiry, already the signals are out. “Cabinet confidentiality” is being referenced, and the requirements of “national security” solemnly invoked. This latter probably has some connection to the wild theory, birthed I believe on CBC, that “the Russians” were behind or had some dark connection to the great 18-wheel “coup” of 2022. The darkest of “foreign interests.”
   This talk of cabinet confidentiality and national security in the context of an entirely internal protest by a group of Canadian workers, who tweeted their every move, is just bizarre.
  Are there documents, obtained by our security guardians as they penetrated the revolutionary cells of those truckers “slouching towards Ottawa,” that are too delicate for public view? Documents that even now might imperil the viability of our government, and work the demise of our beloved Confederation? What could they be?