Re: Trudeau's chief of staff gave 'limited answers' about alleged Chinese election interference.Back in 2010, one of former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's top aides failed to make a scheduled appearance before a Commons committee, a day after he said cabinet staffers will no longer testify at committees.. Dimitri SoudasDimitri Soudas .Harper's director of communications, Dimitri Soudas, had been called to appear before an all-party committee, as it investigated allegations of political interference in the release of documents under the Access to Information Act..Soudas said cabinet ministers, not staffers, will only go before committees, announcing a new "government-wide" policy..Current Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who at the time was a backbencher MP, defended Soudas’s stance by stating on CBC News that “The reality is that Mr Soudas is not going to be testifying anyway because of a tiny little inconvenient problem which the opposition parties have, which is this 300-year-old concept of ministerial accountability, meaning that ministers answer questions on behalf of the government, and not staff”.Fast forward 13 years. Poilievre recently demanded that Katie Telford, Chief of Staff to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau do exactly what he believed Soudas had the right to refuse. Conservative hypocrisy at its finest..Georgina Duckles.Toronto.Due to a high level of spam content being posted in our comment section below, all comments undergo manual approval by a staff member during regular business hours (Monday - Friday). Your patience is appreciated.
