LIBERALS' FRACTIONAL HOLD ON THE TRUTH

   It’s too serious to be funny, but the committee set up to investigate why the Emergencies Act was used has acquired more than a touch of farce.
   The options laid before the special parliamentary committee are twofold: Mendacious Marco or Misunderstood Minister Mendicino?
  Either the minister of public safety lied — repeatedly, robustly, resolutely — to Parliament, to Canadians, to his barber, butcher, baker and candlestick maker, or he was singularly, spectacularly, stunningly unable to make himself understood. Neither option — mendacity or a massive incapacity to communicate — is a desideratum for a minister of the Crown.