Premier David Eby is on the correct side of a controversy involving a government attempt to get the RCMP to probe an embarrassing leak.

But it took a complicated dance to get there, one that he executed pretty adroitly. He repeatedly stressed that he has no business intervening, while he was doing just that, for justified reasons.

His initial stance was that he had nothing to do with starting a police probe into how Opposition critic Elenore Sturko got a revealing document, and no say in any investigations.

But he wound up defending Sturko, criticizing the probe and questioning the priorities of the director of police services in his government.

It’s the right and proper position. Asking the RCMP to start probing how an opposition MLA got information is a serious overreach, and a major lapse in judgment. The investigation into the leak is a waste of time. It created a major political issue for a while, but no cases were compromised and no lives are at stake.

Telling the RCMP to investigate it puts a big discount on the NDP’s commitment to open government, since they........

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