Today's News: "Get the clearance, take the briefing, protect the country"

A week ago, when Poilievre's lack of a security clearance first hit the fan, because of Trudeau's testimony to the foreign interference inquiry, reporter Stephen Chase tweeted a statement from Poilievre's office -- they tried very very hard to perish the thought that a security clearance is important, saying our boy doesn't really need one anyway, not really....:

Pierre Poilievre received a briefing Monday from the PM's national security adviser on the allegations against India, his office said Tuesday. "If the government believes that there is further information that Mr. Poilievre needs to know, they can, through CSIS, utilize 'threat reduction measures' under section 12.1 of the CSIS Act, to make further information available in a manner that would not limit Mr. Poilievre’s ability to speak to Canadians," his office said Tuesday.

Hmmm -- but that wasn't good enough:

Worth noting, every level of law enforcement, leaders of every party and all three levels of government are now basically saying Pierre Poilievre is hiding from his NatSc background check for obvious reasons. pic.twitter.com/1QaVBTkxY3

— Dean Blundell🇨🇦 (@ItsDeanBlundell) October 22, 2024

Hmmm -- so now Poilievre is getting Liberal zingers, with Trudeau leading off:

“Get the clearance

Take the briefing

Protect the country”

Priceless.⬇️ https://t.co/cEwkWwSp0F

— Ana Lia Pauchulo She/Her (@Ana_Pauchulo) October 23, 2024

and Liberal MPs have jumped on the bandwagon too:

How many times will Pierre dodge getting his security clearance? How many?

👀 https://t.co/RInZG9CpYi pic.twitter.com/mE2n0JK98m

— Randy Boissonnault 🏳️‍🌈 (@R_Boissonnault) October 24, 2024

A little advice for Pierre Poilievre. #cndpoli #onpoli pic.twitter.com/BoPl0M5tr4

— Michael Coteau (@coteau) October 24, 2024

Hmmm --- so now Conservative apologists have started making up "reasons" for why Poilievre hasn't got a security clearance:

New reason for not getting security clearance, per Michael Chong. Is Mr. Poilievre worried about misuse of his personal information by the govt, or not being able to criticize the government? Changing narratives...https://t.co/kFxyRIx6GP pic.twitter.com/8qsUiPvSIr

— Susan Mitchell (@mitchel_susan) October 24, 2024

Hmmm --- but actually we do wonder what the problem is here...

Read this shit out loud to yourself.

Pierre Poilievre is trying to tell Canadians he’s won’t sit for his NatSec background clearance because they’ll find lots of bad things and they’ll be used against him.

I can’t stop laughing pic.twitter.com/JSi1zVLG1B

— Dean Blundell🇨🇦 (@ItsDeanBlundell) October 24, 2024

It is a fact that after a major change in private life an MP with top clearance must undergo a new top security level check. Poilievre married at the end of 2017 and clearly never bother to update his security. It wasn't because of the 'foreign interference' situation so... why?

— Mike Morris (@1MikeMorris) October 24, 2024

Hmmm -- so it really all comes down to this, doesn't it:

The more Pierre Poilievre and the entire CPC front bench talk about “reasons” that he should not get security clearance, the more it becomes clear that there is only one reason he will not apply: he is afraid of being rejected.

— Ninety-Nine 🎈 🎈 🎈 (@ssolyom) October 24, 2024