RCMP Investigating Trudeau
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He means Michigan. Northern Michigan.
Or Minnesota.He means Michigan. Northern Michigan.
There is a chunk of MN that can only be accessed through Ontario
The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a pene-exclave of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. Except for surveying errors,[1] it is the only place in the contiguous United States north of the 49th parallel, which forms the border between the U.S. and Canada from the Northwest Angle westward to the Strait of Georgia (between the U.S. state of Washington and the province of British Columbia). The land area of the Angle is separated from the rest of Minnesota by Lake of the Woods, but shares a land border with Canada. It is one of six non-island locations in the 48 contiguous states that are practical exclaves of the U.S. It is the northernmost township in Minnesota and contains the northernmost point in the contiguous 48 states. The unincorporated community of Angle Inlet is in the Northwest Angle.
Is that where the prism ism?
or isn't, I should say
is we is or is we isn't
gonna get ourselves a prison?
That could be it too. I was thinking of that odd weird piece of Michigan that nobody notices exists most of the time above Wisconsin.
Still nowhere near Montana.
It's a shame Canadians need to correct Americans on geography.
ON borders MB & MI…so maybe.
Anyway…So it turns out the RCMP WAS, in fact, investigating the federal Liberals for political interference into corruption charges against engineering firm SNC Lavalin. The story, first published by the National Post Monday morning, was not part of some Conservative plot or the result of “irresponsible journalism,” as all-purpose Liberal cheerleader Gerald Butts put it.
The Liberals were under police scrutiny until at least January of this year and no matter how much Liberal partisans want to conjure up conspiracy theories, this is a fact.
The Mounties, as was initially reported, denied an access to information request seeking details about any investigation into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others who tried to pressure former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould into intervening in the prosecution of SNC Lavalin, which is politically important in Quebec. The ethics commissioner previously found that Trudeau had broken ethics laws.
In a letter to advocacy group Democracy Watch dated May 25, the RCMP explained that 86 of 96 pages were redacted because “this matter is under investigation.” The RCMP’s default to secrecy is notorious. A “matter” being “under investigation” is not some spell that precludes making information public, but, as any reporter who has covered the RCMP knows, the Mounties sure do believe it’s magic.
It was not until nearly 12 hours after the Post first asked the RCMP for comment, and hours after the story had been published online, that the RCMP responded with an email that said, “The statement, in a May 2023 Access to Information Release was sent using information available at the time.”
Carson Jerema: RCMP obfuscations come to Justin Trudeau's rescue in SNC Lavalin scandal — National Post
Conflicting claims from the Mounties about when the government was under investigation are at best bureaucratic incompetence
The email further stated that the investigation had concluded in January 2023 because “there was insufficient evidence” to lay criminal charges. So, yes, the RCMP was investigating the government in its handling of the SNC Lavalin case, and this is the first time it had commented on the issue since the fall of 2019.
As for the discrepancy between the RCMP claiming the investigation was ongoing in May, but also claiming it had been concluded in January, at best, this amounts to typical bureaucratic incompetence. The result of which is that the public has been deprived of information they have a right to know.
In a country where passport applications can cause the machinery of government to seize up, the suggestion that different parts of the RCMP are clueless as to what each is doing seems plausible.
Yet in the hours between when the National Post story was published and the details were clarified, the way in which the RCMP responded publicly to this issue would seem, at least to a cynical observer, calculated to benefit Trudeau and those around him.
Carson Jerema: RCMP obfuscations come to Justin Trudeau's rescue in SNC Lavalin scandal — National Post
Conflicting claims from the Mounties about when the government was under investigation are at best bureaucratic incompetence
At 5:30 p.m. ET, an email from the Prime Minister’s Office directed National Post inquiries to the RCMP. At the time, it might have seemed like both the PMO and the police were trying to evade questions from a reporter, as is often the case.
But then, at 6:01 p.m., the RCMP posted on Twitter that it “can confirm it is not investigating allegations of political interference in the trial of SNC Lavalin.”
This post, which rests on the words “it is not,” was obviously lacking context, and clearly did not deny that the Liberals were ever under investigation. Nor did it allude to the fact that the RCMP did state in May that the matter was still being investigated, or that this statement was apparently an error and that the file was closed four months prior.
As a way to inform Canadians on a matter of intense public interest, the tweet was less than useless. But it was enough for Liberal partisans and Trudeau apologists, including those in the media who work for Post competitors, to gleefully declare that the story was false or based on “questionable claims,” as one Toronto Star columnist posted on social media.
The same people who chastise other reporters for writing crime stories based on what police tell them — racist propaganda, if you haven’t heard — took a carefully worded RCMP tweet as gospel, so desperate are some journalists in this country to wipe any dirt that may sprinkle upon the prime minister.
The police are lying and cannot be trusted — defund them! — unless, of course, they say something that could be generously interpreted as exonerating a Liberal, then what the police say is sacrosanct.
We don’t know the exact details or reasoning that led to the RCMP’s infuriating communications on Monday.
The end result of this latest SNC Lavalin story, whether intended by the RCMP or not, was for the police to run interference for the Trudeau Liberals. The story should have been about the revelation that the government was under investigation, at least at one point, or if the RCMP had not redacted its files, a story about why it concluded an investigation without criminal charges.
Instead, it became a story about RCMP incompetence, and completely bogus allegations of journalistic malfeasance.
The public remains in the dark and that suits the prime minister just fine…so that’s that I guess.
MB, MT, what am I now, an expert on Canadian province/territory abbreviations?
Tough room!
Some us have to be, but most don’t. Was just try’n to Guess a two letter abbreviation that starts with an M & borders Ontario.
The fact that MB & MN & MI all fit is unlikely but real.
Trudeau doesn't care. He thinks the law doesn't apply to him.
He's been convicted what, twice now of ethics breaches? The first sitting PM to have this, no?
What did he get, a "don't-do-it again" card, twice?
Whenever I hear the story of Trudeau getting his @$$ handing to him by a friend of mine in HS, I always smile, because it's probably one of the few times Trudeau got what was coming to him.
He's been convicted what, twice now of ethics breaches? The first sitting PM to have this, no?
What did he get, a "don't-do-it again" card, twice?
Whenever I hear the story of Trudeau getting his @$$ handing to him by a friend of mine in HS, I always smile, because it's probably one of the few times Trudeau got what was coming to him.
Young Trudeau wasn't a popular person back then and nothing has changed. Watching him [try to] interact with other world leaders is almost cringeworthy.
Watched some video of him at the EU Parliament sometime after the pandemic and at least three parliamentarians stood up and spoke out in protest against Trudeau having the nerve to speak in their house of democracy, referring to his invoking of the Emergencies Act over a peaceful protest.
There are a few videos out there of him looking rather awkward and uncomfortable at some international this or that because nobody gives a shit that he's there. I mean it's not like Canada has ever been a big dog, but now we're not only not a big dog, we're a little neutered dog.
I mean say what you want about his dad but at least Pierre had charisma, and respect on the international stage. We still weren't a big dog but at least our PM was respected outside of Canada.
Watched some video of him at the EU Parliament sometime after the pandemic and at least three parliamentarians stood up and spoke out in protest against Trudeau having the nerve to speak in their house of democracy, referring to his invoking of the Emergencies Act over a peaceful protest.
There are a few videos out there of him looking rather awkward and uncomfortable at some international this or that because nobody gives a shit that he's there. I mean it's not like Canada has ever been a big dog, but now we're not only not a big dog, we're a little neutered dog.
I mean say what you want about his dad but at least Pierre had charisma, and respect on the international stage. We still weren't a big dog but at least our PM was respected outside of Canada.