Mon Jun 5, 2023 – 8:43 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s family friend and “special rapporteur” David Johnston will not have to testify about his dealings with the embattled Trudeau Foundation after NDP MPs voted with Liberal MPs to prevent him from being summoned before the House of Commons.
The 6-4 vote, which prevents Johnston from having to testify, was held last Thursday by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, whose vote in effect has adjourned debate on the matter.
The NDP MPs on the committee are the reason Johnston will be spared, for now at least, from having to go before the House.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MPs on the committee were not pleased with the vote. CPC MP and committee chair John Williamson noted that the request for Johnston to be summoned is in effect a “demand.”
“It is a demand that is rarely rejected because it is akin to a court order. It virtually obliges the individual to appear,” he said as noted by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The summons came via a one-sentence motion in which the committee asked that “in relation to its study on the Trudeau
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