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Feb 28, 2023·edited Feb 28, 2023

Thanks for shedding real light on these questions Wesley. Many of the questions you answered were in my mind, and weren't being answered with the cool nuanced judgment you demonstrate. So tired of media flavours of the week. If media consumers were educated to know understand that the media thrives on sensation, we'd all be better off.

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Thank you for this. I hope that voters get more of an inkling of the harm that could take place if knee jerk “tell all” demands were successful!!

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Excellent commentary. Canadians as a whole need a LOT better understanding of national security issues, oversight, and reporting mandates.

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It was Elizabeth Barrett Browning, not Shakespeare, who famously counted the ways, but I take your point 😂 and appreciate all the ways you counted and elaborated regarding the challenges of a judicial inquiry

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How silly of me. Yes Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an extraordinary poet who began a gilded life as a child and then went on to something much more terrible and hard. The famous poem is from Sonnets from the Portuguese and begins, "How do I love thee, let me count the ways." The last line reads, "I shall but love thee better after death." See for a good biographical snap shot, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43742/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-43-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways

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Thank you for bringing clarity to this complex issue.

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