With regard to this panel's activities in a situation during the writ period, which would involve something like the deepening SNC-Lavalin scandal—the Prime Minister's original claim regarding the media report of allegations of attempted obstruction of justice, political interference, pressure on the former Attorney General—this panel, given the clerk's testimony last week and if there was successive electronic retweeting of that story, would very possibly side with the government, as you said, and bring in to some doubt the ability of this panel.
On February 26th, 2019. See this statement in context.