David Krayden: Election Interference Inquiry Reveals Ottawa’s Great Credibility Gap

Commentary The public inquiry into foreign interference has been defined by gross discrepancies in testimony over the last two weeks. This investigation has evolved into two competing narratives of Chinese interference in Canadian elections. Sixty years ago, at the agonizing end of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s tenure, American media discussed the “credibility gap” that had dogged Johnson over his conduct of the Vietnam War. Johnson had won 61 percent of the vote in the 1964 presidential election, but his popularity was plummeting and ultimately, he decided not to run again in 1968. It wasn’t just the left-wing protesters on the streets who were demanding Johnson’s resignation; average Americans were beginning to question the storyline that the administration offered about America winning the war, about how they could see light at the end of the tunnel and victory would be achievable with just another deployment of 10,000 troops....