Angry in the Great White North

From the Files of the Phantom Observer:

Angry in the Great White North has a lot of praise for this report, which he contrasts to the dog's breakfast that is the Sgro report. I suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that the Office was under more pressure to clear Sgro than to clear Grewal; consequently a lot more people had to be interviewed to get a fuller picture of what was going on under Sgro's watch.

I think he might have hit on it, but missed the significance by focusing on the number of witnesses being interviewed. The office of the ethics commissioner, which is supposed to be free of all pressure, was "under more pressure to clear Sgro than to clear Grewal".

That statement itself is not supposed to be true. But let's assume it is. The Grewal Report is clear and concise and makes good recommendations and comes to a fair conclusion. It was also cheap to write. But then the report is honest and does not attempt to come to a preordained conclusion. Gurmant Grewal is an opposition MP, after all.

The Sgro Report is long and confusing and makes no clear recommendations, nor does it come to a clear conclusion. It was also very expensive. Why? If pressure was being brought to bear to give Judy Sgro a pass, then a report that tries to force the evidence to that preordained conclusion, especially if the evidence supports an entirely different conclusion, would be all twisted and bent out of shape.

Can the mess that is the Sgro Report be considered circumstantial evidence of the interference from the Prime Minister's Office in the functioning of the Ethics Commission? Tim Murphy already said that the Ethics Commission was subject to influence by the PMO.

I can't prove anything. But it makes me wonder...