In September 2025, Chris Alexander—formerly Stephen Harper’s immigration minister …
For many Canadians that last part would be enough to throw suspicion on the veracity of the ‘documents’.
Does it? I don’t remember Harper’s government to have been commonly fraudulent. Now Poilievre on the other hand I could see.
I remember Harper’s government pushing through legislation without review, shutting down government when they didn’t get their way, and burning documents for three days as they left office. They cared about not appearing fraudulent, but I wouldn’t trust them as far as the length of Parliament Hill.
Hey now, remember that it wasn’t “Harper’s Government” but in fact, “The Harper Government”? That fuck had so much ego he officially changed the name of the federal government to his name. It’s not proof of anything, of course, but does that recontextualize the cloud of suspicion on behalf of others for you?
I like this story because it shows people have skills outside of their career title.
On a few occasions I have heard university types discount people based solely on their area of study, and it is a flawed logic conclusion.
One was: an old war vet neighbour saw plants growing on our fence line and he cautioned that we should remove them as they were deadly nightshade (we had kids and pets in the yard). A uni type came by and scoffed if he’s not a botanist then don’t worry about it.
Another one was: A person asking for a lend of an electrical theory paper for their partner to read. The holder of the paper said what does your partner do? They replied electrician. So the paper holder says no, this is way over their heads, they wouldn’t understand it. I found that really an odd take, because I have no quantum theory training or gene editing training, but if you give me a science article I can read through and enjoy learning about new techniques or ideas even if I couldn’t do the calculations shown or understand how to build a therapy vector.
This is a fascinating and thrilling interview. Thanks for posting!
This is wild. I mean, it’s cool that a random guy did all that journalistic legwork on investigating this, but it’s very concerning that this took place and that it required some random guy to do the legwork to investigate it. This is really not okay.
