Trudeau 'welcomes' ethics probe of alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case

[Danbones]

I wish you would have joined the ongoing conversation on this conversation DB makes it too easy for Hoid to hit and run with a drive by posting Lol

If Hoid had any credibility at this point, but I don't believe he does.

Any post HE makes is thread drift..into fakenews talkingpoint insanity.

 

[pgs]

The SNC Lavalin affair has certainly had some twists to it over the last 5-6 days. I (I sense a lot of Canadians do too) wonder if Just-in is trying to cover up something that he created? The committee today says that they will only have 3 witness at their investigation, and they hand picked those. Would that be ones that they know got 99.9% on the "LYING WITH A STRAIGHT FACE COURSE? I heard one of the Liberals say they do not have the money for more people. Sounds to me like he was trying to suggest that Just-in wants to sweep this thing under the rug. GET MORE RUGS!
Is there a possibility or probability that Just-in would have SNC Lavalin send some money over to a Swiss Bank account that Just-in has signing authority over? We hear that SNC paid the Liberals money to their campaign fund over the years, should we check if they are also funneling money to the Trudeau money laundering account that he is ultimately in charge of?
I get cynical when I hear that Quebec is more corrupt than Africa and when you realize that Just-in is from Quebec, should we trust him to not be corrupt? Just asking?

Well he was getting paid by public institutions to speechify well collecting a MP’s salary .

 

[petros]

Can we start chanting "Lock her(Trudeau) up" yet?

 

[spilledthebeer]

Flippant attitude' on SNC-Lavalin scandal may hurt Trudeau

"If Scheer was doing a better job, the liberals wouldn't have to be both the party in power and the opposition"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That is a real Dan BONEHEAD remark about SCHEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals are the party in power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


For now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That means they control the parliament and the political agenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


All Scheer can do is point out where LIE-berals are BURYING THEIR DIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And Scheer must hope that Cdns will REMEMBER THAT DIRT when they hit the ballot box in October!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



But isnt it nice that our usually LIE-beral loving news media has decided that the SNC Lavalin mess is NEWSWORTHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I think Cdn media smells political blood in the water over this Lavalin scandal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-beral loving news media is very sensitive to honest accusations of political bias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So they dare not look away and refuse to comment on this bleeding LIE-beral political mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


There is every reason to assume there will be a new govt in October and our media whores do not want to be on the wrong side of things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



So Cdn media CANNOT LOOK AWAY FROM THE GROWING SCANDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And there is NO WAY for Our idiot Boy to defuse it either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


A full and formal inquiry cannot be completed till after the October election!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And idiot Boy cannot simply make it go away by refusing to talk about it- in standard LIE-beral fashion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Either Wilson- Reybauld still has political ambitions and wants to protect her reputation as best she can and has hired that lawyer to help her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Or the Lavalin mess is SO HUGE that she has hired the lawyer to keep her ass out of jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Once the full truth comes out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


After all- at this point- THE QUESTIONS ARE PILING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It isnt just about Wilson-Reybauld and Lavalin ANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


She was Justice Minister when the Admiral Norman trial began!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And Norman is Alleged to have leaked cabinet secrets to Davie Shipyards regarding the LIE-beral choice to CANCEL the Conservative contract to purchase new ship for the navy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And now we have another accusation against a civil servant for allegedly leaking virtually the same secrets as Norman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And at the same time we have that grand LIE-beral announcement to purchase BAE T 26 DESTROYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Are LIE-berals simply trying to BURY multiple piles of political dirt behind all this sound and fury and legal machination??????????????????????


Should we ask just how much dirt Wilson-Reybauld is struggling to AVOID TALKING ABOUT?????????????????????????


And there is every reason to believe that LIE-berals ARE NOT SERIOUS about buying any new weapons for Cdn military!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No new fighter jets and certainly no new ships either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If LIE-berals get re-elected in October 2019- then we can count on them cancelling ALL proposed military procurement deals in 2020!!!!!!!!!!


Right along with cancellation of Kinder Morgan pipeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



As for the blighted careers of Norman and REy-Bauld...........oh well...................APPARENTLY LIE-beral politics IS A DIRTY GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



AND THEY MIGHT JUST BE CASUALTIES?????????????????????????????

 

[Mowich]

Former Ontario attorney general weighs in on SNC-Lavalin affair

"Obstruction of justice charges have been laid for far far less evidence than this."

"This is not a dictatorship..."

He points out that the change to the criminal code that benefits L-snc was put in a budget bill so it would pass without being debated. He thinks a police investigation is called for if there isn't one already.

He was absolutely right about the libs sneaking in changes to the criminal code using the omnibus budget bill. The fact that The Great Enabler would even consider using an omnibus bill after continually vilifying the previous government for doing so is yet another example of his extreme hypocrisy. Say one thing to get votes then do exactly the other once in power. Changes to the criminal code mean that judges are given the discretion to levy fines in lieu of jail time should they feel the person/company warrants such treatment. Should SNC Lavalin get off with a fine they would then be allowed to keep operating in Canada instead of facing a 10 year ban on doing so.

 

[Twin_Moose]

The government’s case for ‘remediation agreements’ made no mention of SNC-Lavalin

All eyes were on the House justice committee today as it met on Parliament Hill to argue about how far to go when it comes to probing what led Vancouver MP Jody Wilson-Raybould—the former veterans affairs minister, and before that justice minister and attorney general—to quit cabinet this week.
At issue is a previously obscure law—introduced and passed by the Liberal government only last year—that allows federal prosecutors to offer a break to companies facing criminal trial for economic crimes, by punishing them instead under a new tool called a “remediation agreement” that spares them from going to court.
Liberals on the justice committee today emphasized the need to understand remediation agreements, also sometimes called “deferred prosecutions,” but they aren’t the first MPs on the Hill to look into the matter. With much less fanfare, the House finance committee took a quick look at the issue last spring—when a justice department official offered MPs bland reassurance about the measure’s origins and how it would work in practice.
READ MORE: Paul Wells on ‘the real Canada’
All the fresh interest now about the law springs, of course, from stories in the Globe and Mail that contain allegations Wilson-Raybould was pressured when she was attorney general by the Prime Minister’s Office to intervene to let SNC-Lavalin, the Montréal engineering giant, negotiate a remediation agreement rather than facing a damaging bribery trial.
The story brought to light a history of intense lobbying by SNC-Lavalin to have the government introduce the remedial agreement option in the first place. And, when the federal public prosecutions office later declined to let SNC-Lavalin negotiate such a deal, the company allegedly pushed again to have Wilson-Raybould step in. (The attorney general has the power to tell the director of public prosecutions what to do, as long as that direction is put in writing and published in the Canada Gazette.)
Last spring, the House finance committee heard testimony about the policy from Ann Sheppard, senior counsel in the justice department’s criminal law section, and asked her questions. The committee was studying last year’s sprawling budget omnibus bill, into which the remediation agreement reform was stuffed, along with many other measures.
Without mentioning that the remediation agreement legislation was prompted in any way by SNC-Lavalin’s desire to avoid trial over a Libyan bribery scandal, Sheppard said no single case was behind the measure. Asked who wanted it then, she said a wide range of groups, including “small and medium-sized enterprises.”
Despite her upbeat portrayal of the origins of the reform, some MPs remained skeptical. “It leaves a bad taste in my mouth in the sense that it seems we’re going to let off people who would commit a very serious economic crime…” said Liberal MP Greg Fergus during the committee hearing. “We seem to be letting off people in white-collar crimes with a little slap on the wrist.”
“I have deep concerns,” said Conservative MP Dan Albas. “Even the fact that you can have the bribery of a foreign official, to me that is not just an average, everyday, white-collar crime. That is something that someone who is politically connected or at a very high level in business can do.” (Albas suggested the justice committee should look into the policy, which it finally got around to only this week, and only after Wilson-Raybould’s resignation forced the matter.)
It was NDP MP Pierre-Luc Dusseault who asked Sheppard, “Was there a particular case that led you to propose such a change in order to deal with similar situations?” She answered that the remedial agreement idea was “not motivated by any particular case, but it’s something that is being considered in other countries or has been in place in other countries.” She mentioned U.S. and British law, along with similar legislation then being passed in Australia.
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre also pressed her on the motivation for the bill. “Who asked for this?” Poilievre wanted to know. “It came as a result of a public consultation,” Sheppard answered. “There were NGOs, accountants, business associations, prosecutors, small and medium-sized enterprises, so there was quite a diversity of views. Individual prosecutors made submissions. It attempts to respond to the feedback that was given by the vast majority, actually.”
Sheppard also stressed the independence of federal prosecutors to decide when to negotiate a remediation agreement, not mentioning the possibility of the attorney general stepping in. “Remediation agreements would be a new tool for prosecutors in Canada to use at their discretion in appropriate circumstances where it’s in the public interest to do so,” she said, adding later, “They have to be convinced that it’s in the public interest, and the court has to be convinced that it’s in the public interest.”

 

[Decapoda]

..and there is Trudeau throwing ex AG JWR under the bus while trying to claim it's her fault for not going to HIM over something he was doing wrong...

...throwing her under the bus...in front of a bus!!! You couldn't make this stuff up!

 

[Jinentonix]

...throwing her under the bus...in front of a bus!!! You couldn't make this stuff up!

Wow :lol: I didn't catch that the first time I saw it. Man, that setting is soooo symbolic.

 

[Jinentonix]

He was absolutely right about the libs sneaking in changes to the criminal code using the omnibus budget bill. The fact that The Great Enabler would even consider using an omnibus bill after continually vilifying the previous government for doing so is yet another example of his extreme hypocrisy. Say one thing to get votes then do exactly the other once in power.

And yet the ALT-left cretins whine about "populism". :lol:

 

[Twin_Moose]

Making a mockery of the committee by deflecting instead of probing

 

[Danbones]

Trudeau blames “Jody” for letting him down on SNC-Lavalin | Ezra Levant

On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, I talked about how as the crisis grows in the days after the explosive Globe and Mail story about Jody Wilson-Raybould being fired as justice minister because she wouldn’t drop the criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin, Trudeau has started to fight back, essentially by calling her a liar.

She hasn't really said anything yet.

 

[Danbones]

...throwing her under the bus...in front of a bus!!! You couldn't make this stuff up!

Now, That's a sad lol...sort of, isn't it?

good catch.

 

[spilledthebeer]

Trudeau blames “Jody” for letting him down on SNC-Lavalin | Ezra Levant

On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, I talked about how as the crisis grows in the days after the explosive Globe and Mail story about Jody Wilson-Raybould being fired as justice minister because she wouldn’t drop the criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin, Trudeau has started to fight back, essentially by calling her a liar.

She hasn't really said anything yet.

Oh its just the usual LIE-beral GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIE-berals are STRONG for law and order when they think it will garner them votes- such as sucking up to native radicals by killing Kinder Morgan pipeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Angry Albertans do not count because they dont vote LIE-beral anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



And then LIE-berals turn around and play fast and loose with SNC Lavalin since it WILL get them votes in Quebec!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And Wilson-Reybould is now playing a delicate balancing game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


She would like to cler her name and salvage something of her career and self respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


But she cannot speak with0ut violating Cabinet privacy regulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And in true LIE-beral fashion- they will act swiftly to SILENCE Wilson-Reybould!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And you can bet silencing Reybould will be a LOT QUICKER legal dwal than getting to the bottom of the SNC Lavalin scandal!!!!!!!!!!!!!



When it comes to LIE-beral respect for the rule of law- we have only to think back to Wynne-bag Ontari-owe LIE-berals for SUING Conservative Tim Hudak for saying things about the gas plant scandal that have turned out to be TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Danbones]

Liberals replace justice minister “watchdog” with SNC-Lavalin “lapdog”
| Ezra Levant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JtKbe3wDnU&t=70s

I think he is from the home riding of SNC lavalin

David Lametti Draws 'Line That Cannot Be Crossed' Amid SNC-Lavalin Scandal
The new attorney general suggests he hasn't asked his predecessor for her side.

OTTAWA — Canada's attorney general told a room full of lawyers Monday that he would not weigh in on the current SNC-Lavalin scandal unfurling before the Liberal government.

But in remarks to the Canadian Bar Associations' annual meeting, David Lametti outlined how his unique job and roles differ from other ministers around the cabinet table.

"There is a line that cannot be crossed: telling the attorney general what a decision ought to be. That would be interference," Lametti explained.

"And at the end of the day, I abide by the longstanding principle that when acting as attorney general I will apply my judicial mind to a decision, and not my political mind."
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/02/11/david-lametti-snc-lavalin_a_23667133/

SNC-Lavalin may face fraud charges connected to work on Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge

Quebec prosecutors are working with the RCMP on the possibility of new criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin tied to a contract to refurbish Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge, court documents show.

In December, Quebec court approved a request by prosecutors to retain until June thousands of documents seized by the RCMP in connection with an investigation that drew on more than two dozen witnesses.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4954892/snc-lavalin-criminal-charges-montreal-bridge/


SNC-Lavalin boss repeats calls for delayed prosecution agreements amid diversification efforts

May 4, 2017
THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!! GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY


Meanwhile, Bruce also called for delayed prosecution agreements (DPAs) in Canada, which he said would put the company on equal footing with its rivals during major bids on overseas projects.

DPAs have been used in the U.S. and U.K. for years as a way to defer prosecution for corporations, giving them a window to improve their business practices. Bruce said the absence of DPAs adversely impacts SNC’s ability to win bids due to their tarnished reputation.

“The way that we’ve got the system currently without a DPA in Canada puts us at a real disadvantage in comparison to our international — specifically the U.S. and European — competitors,” Bruce told reporters Thursday.

“We’ve lost contracts, we believe, on the basis of two competitors who have availed themselves of DPAs, and have won contracts on the basis that we are viewed as being under charges,” he said.

SNC has been serving a 10-year ban since 2013 that prohibits the company from bidding on any World Bank-financed projects. The company has for years been marred by allegations that it bribed Bangladeshi officials to secure the $2.9-billion Padma Bridge project, on which the World Bank served as the lead financer.
https://business.financialpost.com/...ution-agreements-amid-diversification-efforts

 

[Danbones]

Commons committee to weigh probe of SNC-Lavalin allegations
Feb 13, 2019

OTTAWA — The SNC-Lavalin controversy shifts today to the House of Commons justice committee, where MPs will decide whether to investigate allegations of undue political arm-twisting.

Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned from the federal cabinet Tuesday, leaving fresh unanswered questions about whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s aides pressured her to help engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution.

Trudeau has denied Wilson-Raybould was pressured to instruct the director of public prosecutions to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin rather than pursue a criminal trial on charges of bribery and fraud related to the company’s efforts to secure government contracts in Libya.
https://battlefordsnow.com/2019/02/13/commons-committee-to-weigh-probe-of-snc-lavalin-allegations/

Yeah, "We came, we saw, he died...cackle cackle cackle!!!"

Then we went down to the market and bought us up some oil bourses, some foreign owned central bank, and some slaves with all the gold dinars we stole!!!!

 

[spilledthebeer]

Liberals replace justice minister “watchdog” with SNC-Lavalin “lapdog” | Ezra Levant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JtKbe3wDnU&t=70s

I think he is from the home riding of SNC lavalin


SNC-Lavalin boss repeats calls for delayed prosecution agreements amid diversification efforts

Meanwhile, Bruce also called for delayed prosecution agreements (DPAs) in Canada, which he said would put the company on equal footing with its rivals during major bids on overseas projects.

DPAs have been used in the U.S. and U.K. for years as a way to defer prosecution for corporations, giving them a window to improve their business practices. Bruce said the absence of DPAs adversely impacts SNC’s ability to win bids due to their tarnished reputation.

“The way that we’ve got the system currently without a DPA in Canada puts us at a real disadvantage in comparison to our international — specifically the U.S. and European — competitors,” Bruce told reporters Thursday.

“We’ve lost contracts, we believe, on the basis of two competitors who have availed themselves of DPAs, and have won contracts on the basis that we are viewed as being under charges,” he said.

SNC has been serving a 10-year ban since 2013 that prohibits the company from bidding on any World Bank-financed projects. The company has for years been marred by allegations that it bribed Bangladeshi officials to secure the $2.9-billion Padma Bridge project, on which the World Bank served as the lead financer.
https://business.financialpost.com/...ution-agreements-amid-diversification-efforts

Canada is not a dictatorship............................YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Buy Our idiot Boy is working HARD TO MAKE INTO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


His blatant bias against white people has been on pubic display since the day after the October 2015 election!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




One of his very first acts was to RESTORE LIE-beral funding aid to terror group HAMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The idiot Boy does NOT LIKE white people, Yankees or Jews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Here is an article illustrating the absurdist off the wall mental state of Our idiot Boy Justin. With some comments of my own in brackets):

GUNTER: What the Dawson report reveals about Trudeau's mentality

BY Lorne Gunter. Published: January 2, 2018. Updated: January 2, 2018 8:24 PM EST

Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists

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The report by outgoing ethics commissioner Mary Dawson into Justin Trudeau’s vacation last Christmas on the Aga Khan’s private island is certainly fascinating for what it says about the prime minister’s violations of federal conflict-of-interest laws.

Dawson determined that Trudeau broke federal ethics law in at least four different ways when he accepted a holiday at the Aga Khan’s Bahamian retreat, when he flew on the Aga Khan’s private helicopter and when he refused to recuse himself from meetings at which tax-funded contributions to the Aga Khan’s Global Centre for Pluralism were discussed.

But the parts of Dawson’s report that are truly fascinating are those that indirectly provide insights into the mentality and habits of the PM and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

Essentially, Trudeau offered Dawson a two-pronged defence of his vacation- and another vacation his wife had taken to the Aga Khan’s Bell Island with a friend of hers and the Trudeau’s children.

The first prong provides an unflattering picture of the prime minister’s governing style.

Essentially, Trudeau claimed not to concern himself with details to such an extent that he could not have been influenced by a gift. He doesn’t involve himself enough in what his government is doing to know what it was that the Aga Khan’s foundation was asking from the Government of Canada, so how could a free trip change his mind?

(Our idiot Boy cannot be swayed by a gift? So he DID recognize the Aga Khan having him and his family visit on two occasions that we know of as a guest- were in fact gifts! And idiot Boy does not think rules apply to HIM!)

Trudeau’s own description of his governing style makes him seem like nothing more than the cool kid who brings weed to a high school party. If there happen to be two groups at the party negotiating a deal of some sort, he’s unaware of it. His only goal is just to make everyone “happy.” So, how could one group’s offer of a free spa treatment influence his behaviour?

(So Our idiot Boy is clueless and blindly arrogant- convinced he can “spin” any problem to his advantage without repercussions!)

Trudeau’s second prong was to insist the Aga Khan was an old family friend. Here Dawson, perhaps inadvertently, makes the PM appear kind of pathetic.

Trudeau claimed a lifelong friendship with the Aga Khan, who he claims to have called “Uncle K” even after he became an adult. But Dawson provides a very different picture.

The Aga Khan did vacation with Trudeau’s father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when Justin was a child. The younger Trudeau was along as part of a larger family entourage.

But for nearly 30 years after that, the Aga Khan had exactly one contact with the current PM – a kind note in 2000 at the time of his father’s passing.

The Aga Khan then struck up the tenuous relationship again after Trudeau became Liberal leader in 2013. This Trudeau seems to have misinterpreted as a sign of true mutual affection from a man nearly 40 years his senior.

(And Our CLUELESS idiot Boy is apparently unaware of the MILLIONS of Cdn dollars in govt grants his “close personal friend” was sucking up! Gosh- whjy would Khan neglect the friendship of a clueless snot nosed kid who might otherwise turn off the govt grant cash! Either Trudope is a sucker or he thinks we are!)

However, as Dawson points out, the Aga Khan has deliberately cultivated similar relationships with most PM’s since the ‘70s, largely because he likes to collect matching donations for his development projects and because he sometimes finds it useful to call on the Canadian PM (whoever it is at the time) to help mediate his disputes with other international political or business leaders.

(I have said it before and its worth repeating: “we cannot afford to BUY votes and friends for LIE-berals- the price is simply TOO HIGH”!)

Only the Trudeaus seem to have interpreted this strategic relationship as the kind of genuine friendship that justifies three separate private, tropical holidays.

Dawson leaves the impression that Trudeau and his wife are a fascinating combination of arrogance and naivety. They appear to possess a deeply rooted set of entitlement and celebrity fascination, yet at the same time suffer an inferiority complex regarding the truly rich and famous.

They seem to think they are now part of the international hobnobbery, yet are almost uncouth in the way they invite themselves into the glitterati’s social circle.

Overall, it’s kind of tragic.

(And it is truly tragic that this idiot Boy/ intellectual dilettante should have ended up in a position of influence in LIE-beral Ottawa! The LIE-beral brain trust is clearly severely depleted if they think Our idiot Boy with his nice hair and earnest manner can make up for disastrous economic and social policy that is failing in all directions! But what else can we really expect from LIE-berals? Things are so bad that even such notable LIE-berals as former federal finance minister John Manley are offering up warnings that are being scorned by the current crop of LIE-berals!)

(It was author Peter C. Newman who said it best about LIE-berals in his book “When the Gods Changed” -describing the LIE-beral fall after the Chretien years and the national shame of the Adscam when three billion dollars of OUR tax money disappeared into the pockets of LIE-beral bagmen. Newman describes himself as a staunch LIE-beral and now finds himself distressed by the lack of policy, logical goals or coherent strategy of the LIE-beral Party. Newman laments that the ONLY philosophy that the party now holds is a firm conviction that they are entitled to lead- with no coherent reason or explanation as to why we should accept their ENTITLEMENT! Rules of ethics, economic logic and true social justice are utterly irrelevant to LIE-berals who seek only power and a place in the national spotlight- WITHOUT the bother of accepting any real responsibility for their stupid actions and FAILED policies!)

 

[Danbones]

AG sees no justification for probe of alleged PMO interference in SNC-Lavalin case

Published Saturday, February 9, 2019 7:00AM EST

OTTAWA -- Current Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti said there has been no evidence to justify a committee investigation into whether or not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or anyone in his office tried to have former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould abandon the prosecution of a case against SNC-Lavalin.

"All we've heard are allegations in a newspaper," Lametti, who replaced Wilson-Raybould when she was shuffled into the Veterans' Affairs portfolio last month, told CTV's Question Period host Evan Solomon.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ag-...mo-interference-in-snc-lavalin-case-1.4289301

It's what we HAVE NOT heard from Wilson-Raybould that tells the tale.

Attorney General David Lametti definitely smells like a..."yeeech!"

cover up, IMHO.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Gonna get interesting

 

[Danbones]

Liberals Thwart Bids To Bring Jody Wilson-Raybould and Top PMO Aides To Justice Committee On SNC-

The justice committee held an emergency meeting.

The Liberal-dominated House of Commons justice committee voted down opposition bids Wednesday to hear from the former attorney general and key members of the Prime Minister's Office on the escalating SNC-Lavalin controversy.

Instead, Liberal MPs chose to study some of the legal issues at the heart of the matter.

The committee held an emergency meeting in Ottawa to debate a motion from three Tory MPs and one New Democrat to have Jody Wilson-Raybould and other high-ranking officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff and principal secretary, testify on the matter.

NDP MP Nathan Cullen said the shift in focus, to hold hearings without calling ministers and key officials to testify, didn't surprise him. He's holding onto a shred of optimism that future study will explore the facts behind the controversy.

"But it's very small having watched them batten down the hatches today and just not allow any truth to come to light," he told reporters after the meeting.

Conservative MP Lisa Raitt said she found the meeting "very disappointing." Like Cullen, she's dismayed the committee won't hear from key witnesses — Wilson-Raybould in particular.

"Her reputation has been dragged through the mud. The Liberal mud for the last two weeks. And quite frankly I want to hear from her so she can clear her name."

The request was made after The Globe and Mail alleged Wilson-Raybould faced pressure from the PMO to instruct the director of public prosecutions to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin. Such a deal would allow the Quebec engineering giant, facing charges of corruption involving government contracts in Libya, to pay financial penalties but avoid the risk of a conviction.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/...er_trending_qeesnbnu0l8&utm_campaign=trending

Geez, it's not like he was suspected of colluding with russians or anything.

If they weren't guilty, they would want the people involved to testify, so this IMHO, is tantamount to a screaming admission of guilt.

 

[Mowich]

Gonna get (much more) interesting

:smile:

I almost choked listening to Andrew Housefather - Chairman of the Justice Committee - today.

"He said the federal Justice Department will be required to address numerous matters in Quebec in the months ahead and suggested this might be the motivation for the shuffle: that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needed a fluent French speaker.

“For example that there’s a lot of legal issues coming up in Quebec and the Prime Minister may well have decided he needed a justice minister that could speak French,” Mr. Housefather said.

“So the idea that she was shuffled because of this unproven allegation to me is quite ridiculous.”


"NDP MP Nathan Cullen said Mr. Housefather’s comments seemed desperate."


That's putting it politely, Mr Cullen. My BS meter immediately sprang to life.

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-liberal-mp-says-wilson-raybould-might-have-lost-justice-post-because/