Johnston #GG #FAIL: Only The Naive Or Idiots Are Unwilling To Admit What’s Happening

Juneau-Katsuya's reply to Fadden critics is a perfect description of those who defend the indefensible outrage of Johnston's appointment, given how Schreiber was a tool of the post-Nazi Bavarian CSU of Strauss, a foreign power which directly interfered in Canadian politics to all of our everlasting subversion and sorrow by bankrolling the Mulroney coup of Clark, and much of the subsequent campaigns (no rules or limits in 1988, remember?). And Johnston, who moderated the 1979 and 1984 debates was there, and everyone in the know in Canada knew what was going on. But we couldn't prove it then. Stevie Cameron took her career in her hands fighting to expose this filth, and then the CBC and others followed up. And a couple of years ago, Johnston reappeared, deus ex machina, to write the most extraordinarily limited terms of reference for an inquiry into these matters, a cunning little ploy by Harper to seemingly disassociate himself from the thing (contrary to precedent - all PMs are responsible for inquiry terms and naming heads of them, that way their own prestige is in play if they are clearly too limited or biased, and that can have a dissuasive effect) while ensuring he got the result he wanted, and was able to hide in Johnston's skirts, since Johnston being a well-liked member of the Canadian elite, bridging academia, politics, media and business, and Canada being a small country, few were willing to point out what a fraud the whole thing was, as "David's a good guy, eh? And it was all so long ago, eh?", and who knows, critics might suffer for their impertinence - "look what happened to Stevie, eh?". The Cons and their allies have friends high and low, in all sorts of places, (as does the opposing clan) and might take a number and deliver a blindside hit when one wasn't expecting it, so best to play along, eh chaps?

But as Spector, Thanks to Dr. Johnston, Airbus became Airbust, and Salutin, The new G-G: Hire him and thank the others, remind y'all, this was and is THE dirtiest scandal on every level, from the late 1970s till today. Think of it, in effect, David Johnston is the final beneficiary (as far as we know) of the Airbus Affair and CSU interference in Canadian politics: 'Whatever we paid him for this it wasn't enough' so Harper made Johnston #GG. I would especially recommend the following passages from Spector and Salutin, respectively. Just before, allow me to give props to the Globe which the innocent may think I berated yesterday. However, Globe, as you know, I know how to read, and I enjoyed the placing of the crucial quote on the front and the "conspiratorial musings about Mr. Johnston's role in advising the Prime Minister on the fairly narrow terms of reference...although these seem petty in the context... (of)...the absence of a shred of evidence that his advice was given in anything but good faith." Dear Globe, I got the point and the joke, but since so many Canadians seem genuinely clueless about these things, I played along, so as to help educate them. Well-played by you, Globe, and I tried to do likewise. As arch as l'Arc de triomphe ;)
Spector:

I don’t know whether Dr. Johnston was asked by members of the committee established by Mr. Harper to advise on the appointment of a new Governor-General why he excluded the Airbus transaction. And, yesterday, he did not take questions from reporters after his brief televised statement.
I do know, however, that Dr. Johnston — who appears supremely qualified for the position in every other respect — has refused to discuss the matter with journalists who’ve requested interviews about his strange decision. And that, ironically, he will now be handing out the most coveted award in journalism — the Michener Award — which was given to the CBC and the Globe and Mail for their work on Airbus.

Salutin:

David Johnston’s selection as Governor-General may be the first time the post went to someone after what can be seen as an audition. I mean his role in setting the terms of a public inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.
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This wouldn’t matter much if the G-G’s role was largely ceremonial, as it has usually been. But we live in minority government times, which may turn permanent. When G-G Michaëlle Jean delayed a response to Stephen Harper’s prorogation request, he seemed displeased and she wasn’t reappointed.

All I’m saying is, if you view the inquiry gig as a test of what the guy might do in a situation where Harper interests are at stake, you’d be reassured. Alternately, if he’d set terms that worked against what were seen as Harper interests, do you think he’d have become G-G? I’m not politicizing this; the appointment itself does so. Especially for a leader who, as his mentor Tom Flanagan says, “thinks about these things all the time.”