"I imagine that she hopes that establishing the panel with Manning at its head will allow her government to shift focus away from COVID toward other issues that might be more electorally palatable. This assumes that Manning will work quietly and in the background: whether that proves to be the case will be interesting to see."
That's the crazy like a fox explanation. I'm not so sure it isn't the plain crazy one: she and her circle legitimately believe in this crap, they think they're going to win the election, Manning will triumphantly issue his report with a legislative action plan and list of evil doers, and the heads will start to roll. Possibly literally.
We shouldn’t forget that Preston is taking home a rather large amount of money which also is very irksome and another example of a waste of taxpayer dollars to friends/donors of the UCP. He’s not bringing anything to the table that warrants that amount of money IMO.
Wow! ....a double whammy of Lisa's sharp analysis! Yes, indeed Smith appointing Manning the lesser to be in charge of this anti- vaxx panel is unacceptable and will produce results that fair-minded people may well choke over their morning coffee. Secondly, Lisa's analysis of the probabilities on what happened with who emailed whom on their private accounts... well played Lisa! Right on!
I think there are prosecutors that wouldn’t report these kind of emails as they should. There may be whistleblowers who saw them but didn’t themselves receive the emails. I was a defence lawyer for many years in Alberta.
For the CBC to be so sure is persuasive there are emails.
AS ALWAYS thoughtful, insightful, SPOT ON.
Bang on Lisa… thanks 🙏
"I imagine that she hopes that establishing the panel with Manning at its head will allow her government to shift focus away from COVID toward other issues that might be more electorally palatable. This assumes that Manning will work quietly and in the background: whether that proves to be the case will be interesting to see."
That's the crazy like a fox explanation. I'm not so sure it isn't the plain crazy one: she and her circle legitimately believe in this crap, they think they're going to win the election, Manning will triumphantly issue his report with a legislative action plan and list of evil doers, and the heads will start to roll. Possibly literally.
We shouldn’t forget that Preston is taking home a rather large amount of money which also is very irksome and another example of a waste of taxpayer dollars to friends/donors of the UCP. He’s not bringing anything to the table that warrants that amount of money IMO.
PS I loved this weeks title!
Wow! ....a double whammy of Lisa's sharp analysis! Yes, indeed Smith appointing Manning the lesser to be in charge of this anti- vaxx panel is unacceptable and will produce results that fair-minded people may well choke over their morning coffee. Secondly, Lisa's analysis of the probabilities on what happened with who emailed whom on their private accounts... well played Lisa! Right on!
I think there are prosecutors that wouldn’t report these kind of emails as they should. There may be whistleblowers who saw them but didn’t themselves receive the emails. I was a defence lawyer for many years in Alberta.
For the CBC to be so sure is persuasive there are emails.