MacDougall: Trudeau is politicizing the public service to protect himself

It should be taken as read that a prime minister doesn’t want his National Security Adviser to be the star of a farce. It’s a job where credibility is everything.
Why, then, is Justin Trudeau continuing to endorse his adviser’s now discredited tales of rogue Indian government factions being the ones behind Jaspal Atwal’s invitations, while simultaneously assigning blame to a backbench MP for the same? The obvious explanation — that it was a desperate prime minister