Unfortunately, I see this tactic used by the PC members quite frequently, so I can accept that it is a tactic that party promotes in their members. It is, unfortunately, extremely common in the House of our neighbors to the south of us.
I sympathize with you. There does not seem to be a vehicle for good communication between the two mods for this community, and looking at the mod logs (in red, very bottom of right hand column) it does not appear that the mods do any dialogue with posters before banning them or deleting their posts. Theoretically, if one of the mods has a particular bias, there is no way to address that bias in their mod actions. Should their communication with you be in a DM, or should it be in a public forum?
His office freely admitted that he was using a tactic he learned while he was a member of the PC party. So was the ‘idiocy’ from the PC or the Liberal Party?
The thing is, he was a former PC that patched over to a Liberal, so what was the political torque applied to him, Liberal or PC?
That is why the importance of understanding his background, and connection to China. Being from per-Chinese Hong Kong, he would not necessarily be a propagandist for China. That part is difficult to follow.
Politics is politics. To understand the questioning, it must be understood that this witness was NOT selected as an unbiased witness, but was selected specifically BECAUSE of her bias towards the issue, and towards China. She was an assistant deputy minister, which basically means an unelected politician specifically indoctrinated in the policies of the political party in power at the time. Her position was well understood long before she took the stand. There was no hope of getting any unbiased neutral ‘facts’ from her from the get-go.