"I'll take a few questions. You, at the back." "Mr. Poilievre, why have you refused a securit-" "Next question. You, over there." "Sir, you have not answered my colleague's ques-" "[sigh] Do you have a question that's not about security clearance?" "Yes!" "Fine. Go ahead." "What are you hiding?"
Either...
• he gets the clearance others have without further delay, or... • he is asked every day what he's hiding by a press increasingly disposed to extrapolate his secret from the available information. It's time to publicly entertain some of the likely possibilities.
There is no in-between.