LeBlanc downplays intelligence in NSICOP report: ‘Long way away from proof’

Speaking in New Brunswick on Friday, Minister of Public Safety Dominic Leblanc said that the “best way to reassure Canadians” around national security following the release of a foreign interference report is to let the independent judicial inquiry examine the information. “Often the intelligence information that’s in the report is one sentence,” LeBlanc said. “So it’s a long way away from a proof and that’s why I think the idea that we can talk about individuals or names without having a higher degree of of reliability is very dangerous.”