Trudeau GUILTY of Conflict of Interest.

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Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by using his position of authority over then-Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould to try and influence her in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

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Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by using his position of authority over then-Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould to try and influence her in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

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Of course he did . That’s what liberals do .
 

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Goddamm racist climate denier guilty of using his postion to intervene on JWR/SNC decision.
How does that make you feel?? Your position on who should be protected from being strong-armed by the elected Government seem to have a few people on the list. Who else should be exempt ??
 

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Correction Scheer will be razzing Trudeau at 11:30 CST or 1:30EST

Jagmeet has already made excellent unscripted comments.
 

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How does that make you feel?? Your position on who should be protected from being strong-armed by the elected Government seem to have a few people on the list. Who else should be exempt ??
Try that again but add a little sanity so we can understand WTF you go on about.
 

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Try that again but add a little sanity so we can understand WTF you go on about.
There is no 'we' when the post is sent to just you alone.
Goddamm racist climate denier guilty of using his postion to intervene on JWR/SNC decision.

guilty of using his postion to intervene on JWR/SNC decision


For being somebody who promotes himself as being Mr. Science you sure do need things explained down to a level a 3 year old would find annoying.

The Law that was being used was passed with the budget, that means the bill was written prior to the Libs gaining control and they were just passing what the Cons had been delaying, or simply did not have enough time to put it through quietly so it didn't become a political issue just before an election.
All the law said was SNC could still bid on contracts (inside of Canada) if it plead guilty to bribery charges without a long trial and appeal. The 'New AG' should have used the ruling arrived at by the World Bank and banned they from bidding on any contracts in Canada as they could not do business with the companies they would need to hire. Guilty plea from SNC and a fine equal to what a trial would have resulted in without the Lawyers doubling the costs. The 2011AG should have started an investigation that long ago rather that 4 years after the WB charged then with bribery.


The 'new AG' may have had stars in her eyes when she decided to drag a Montreal based company through the mud that comes with on trial in open court. When the crime is bribery on contracts that are World Bank projects and that is going to be examined with a fine-toothed comb all the bad things attached to the IMF would be exposed. They do not like exposure, that is why the guilty with no trial was put in rather than the way it went down. The company is still toast of the foreign stage and that is why the WB blacklisted her. What is going on in Canada is she is getting to rape the taxpayers as a final parting gift for the crooks that Ottawa protects in Ontario/Quebec.


JT was trying to save her when he suggested she talk to other AG's about prosecuting a brand new law rather than looking at the cost benefits of charging them and allowing them to plead guilty and get fined. How many times has the World bank been charged and successfully prosecuted in the way it runs a foreign country. Feel free to use Cuba and Venezuela as recent examples.


 

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Scheer is calling for an RCMP investigation.
Unlike Harper just a few years earlier.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/rep...to-be-heard-by-supreme-court/article25236083/
Published July 2, 2015 Updated May 15, 2018

The Supreme Court of Canada announced on Thursday that it would hear the case. A date has not been set.
It's the latest twist in the corruption allegations that for years have swirled around Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin, Canada's largest engineering firm, which also faces separate RCMP charges related to allegations that $47.7-million in bribes were paid to win contracts in Libya under the regime of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Starting in 2010, the World Bank conducted its own investigation into allegations around a bid by SNC-Lavalin for a $10-million contract to manage the construction of Bangladesh's multibillion-dollar Padma Bridge project, which was being financed by the World Bank.

In 2011, the World Bank brought those allegations, including information from four unnamed "tipsters," to the RCMP. Based solely on this information, the Mounties obtained permission to wiretap conversations. The RCMP then raided SNC-Lavalin's Oakville, Ont., offices in September, 2011.
In 2012, the RCMP laid bribery charges against two now former SNC-Lavalin employees: Mohammad Ismail, the company's former director of international projects, and his boss Ramesh Shah, a former vice-president of SNC's international division.
In 2013, it added charges against Kevin Wallace, who was SNC's vice-president of energy and infrastructure, and Zulfiquar Bhuiyan, a businessman with dual Canadian-Bangladeshi citizenship who was not an SNC employee but who is alleged to have been a representative of a senior Bangladeshi official, Abdul Chowdhury.
In court last year, lawyers for the men demanded that the World Bank hand over all of its files related to the case, including those the RCMP relied upon to secure its wiretaps. Production of these kinds of documents would be not be unusual in a routine domestic criminal case, to allow the defence to scrutinize a police investigation for using unreliable witnesses, such as those with an axe to grind, or for relying on flimsy information.


https://business.financialpost.com/...ld-bank-corruption-list-thanks-to-snc-lavalin

Out of the more than 250 companies year to date on the World Bank’s running list of firms blacklisted
from bidding on its global projects under its fraud and corruption policy, 117 are from Canada — with SNC-Lavalin and its affiliates representing 115 of those entries, the World Bank said.“As it stands today, the World Bank debarment list includes a high number of Canadian companies, the majority of which are affiliates to SNC Lavalin Inc.,” said the bank’s manager of investigations, James David Fielder.
“This is the outcome of a World Bank investigation relating the Padma Bridge project in Bangladesh where World Bank investigators closely cooperated with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in an effort to promote collective action against corruption.”
As a result of the misconduct found during the probe, the Montreal-based engineering and construction firm, and its affiliates as per World Bank policy, were debarred in April 2013 for 10 years, as part of a settlement with SNC-Lavalin. And in one fell swoop, 115 Canadian firms were blacklisted by the World Bank, making Canada seemingly look like the worst offending country.
It’s quite the jump from 2012, when no Canadian companies were barred.
The long list of debarments mainly stems from just one large Canadian firm, but it still prompted some headlines around the world to point to Canada as being home to the most corrupt companies in the world.
“It is a little surprising,” said Tim Coleman, a global investigations partner at law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York. “Because you do expect that the companies that are going to be highest up on the list, are going to be companies that have a reputation of corruption. And Canada is not one of those countries.”


The WB was going to protect the whistle blower but the details of the charges and investigation were made available and turned down by the Government in charge at the time, the Cons.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/snc-lavalin-supreme-court-bribery-case-1.3558811
 

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My bad says Pinocchio but..........it is perfectly fine for me to break the law when standing up for Canadian's jobs. That's the gist of what I got out of his remarks today. Meanwhile, he refused to address the part of the ethics commissioner's report that dealt with the refusal of the liberal government to hand over documents pertaining to the SNC scandal.

Ethics watchdog says he was denied access to evidence in SNC-Lavalin affair

https://nationalpost.com/news/polit...nied-access-to-evidence-in-snc-lavalin-affair


 

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not sure how this hurts Trudeau in Quebec where they would expect him to do this or in Ontario where they don't care.

but its good news for the greens because it might help keep trudeau from another massive majority, and put the greens into the drivers seat in a minority
 

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Andrew Coyne: The real scandal in the Lavalin affair is Trudeau's attempts to pretend it's not a scandal

The real scandal is the determined — and, it would appear, largely successful — campaign on the part of the prime minister and his officials to normalize their conduct

nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-the-real-scandal-in-the-lavalin-affair-is-trudeaus-attempts-to-pretend-its-not-a-scandal
He is a martyr. He lied to save other people's jobs, just not his own.

The ultimate political sacrifice.
 

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Andrew Coyne: The real scandal in the Lavalin affair is Trudeau's attempts to pretend it's not a scandal

The real scandal is the determined — and, it would appear, largely successful — campaign on the part of the prime minister and his officials to normalize their conduct


nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-the-real-scandal-in-the-lavalin-affair-is-trudeaus-attempts-to-pretend-its-not-a-scandal
Even the Cons not being able to catch the crooks in the 10 years they had is not as important as the tuberculosis story that JT broke and then everybody on both sides of the aisle or in any media outlet has dared even mention in passing. That is JT's biggest crime to date..