Conservatives Call for Emergency Foreign Affairs Committee Meeting to Examine Justin Trudeau’s Attempts to Silence his Critics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Ottawa, ON
– Conservatives members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and
International Development have called for an emergency meeting to examine the
matter of the Trudeau government applying undue pressure on former career
diplomats David Mulroney and Guy Saint-Jacques.
 
MPs Erin O’Toole, Ziad Aboultaif and Leona Alleslev sent a letter to the Clerk
of the Foreign Affairs Committee requesting an examination of the Prime
Minister’s recent attempts to silence his critics. At the emergency meeting,
Conservatives intend to call the following witnesses: Minister of Foreign
Affairs Chrystia Freeland, Paul Thoppil, Assistant Deputy Minister for
Asia-Pacific, Global Affairs Canada, Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Saint-Jacques.
 
“These exchanges are highly inappropriate and represent a blatant attempt by
Justin Trudeau to muzzle respected former career diplomats. Justin Trudeau has
shown a clear pattern of silencing those who speak out,” said the Hon. Erin
O’Toole, Conservative Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. “As Mr. Mulroney
stated, discouraging private citizens with expertise in foreign relations from
speaking freely is ‘fundamentally an undemocratic idea’. Justin Trudeau must
answer for the many times he has exploited Canada’s non-partisan, public
service for his own political purpose.”
 
The full letter can be read here.
 

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For more information:

Office of the Hon. Erin O’Toole, MP
Erin.OToole.A1@parl.gc.ca
613-992-2792

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