It doesn't contradict anything.
The PMO wanted her to do something she didn't want to do.
Once she understood that there is no reason for her to occupy that position. Is there?
Yeah OK, if you think so, whatever Lol
It doesn't contradict anything.
The PMO wanted her to do something she didn't want to do.
Once she understood that there is no reason for her to occupy that position. Is there?
Sorry TM but Hoid got this one right. She stated that she felt she should stay in her role as AG to protect the office but once she was removed from office she had every opportunity to resign or at least come forward with her concerns. It is and will continue to be a legitimate question that she will have to keep dodging. She showed such integrity in standing up for her office it is too bad that did not continue once she was demoted.Yeah OK, if you think so, whatever Lol
Not at all. She did the right thing by exposing the pressure she was under but the wrong thing by not resigning.Pretty much contradicts everything being said today, the crux of your argument is exactly why this hearing is happening the independence of the AG office to do the right thing not the JT thing
Not at all. She did the right thing by exposing the pressure she was under but the wrong thing by not resigning.
Make it so. After listening to his insipid remarks in Montreal following the hearings today, it appears he is in for the short run- up to the election. Along with yet again throwing Wilson-Raybould under the bus it appears as if her tenure as a liberal MP could quickly come to an end.Our first one term PM since Bennett.
Hey, spilledthebeer, this font size is a lot easier to read. We don't need a billboard to know that you're no fan of Liberals or LIE-berals or however you wanna spell it.Thus our elected imbecile ONLY hears what boot licking LIE-berals WANT him to hear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now the question may be asked: why did you not resign?
If the Prime Minister (or his proxy) asks something of you that you are unable to do then it would be parliamentary tradition for you to tender your resignation and allow the PM to appoint someone who might do what he wants done.
You are only talking about a legal opinion.
Also she has no race-based ability to determine truth.
It all reeks of the sort of entitlement that these politicians develop when they serve in a particular office for a long time.
You only fill that office temporarily. It does not belong to you.
The sex side of the SNC scandal
Brian Lilley
Published:
February 27, 2019
Updated:
February 27, 2019 9:15 PM EST
In this file photo taken on April 13, 2012, SNC-Lavalin's headquarters in Montreal, Quebec.GUILLAUME LAVALLEE / AFP/Getty Images
The SNC-Lavalin affair has had allegations of bribery, political intrigue and a major cover-up, all that was missing was sex.
Now we have the sex component!
A report by Montreal’s La Presse newspaper says that SNC-Lavalin allegedly paid for a sex-filled trip across Canada for the son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
“Naked dancers, porn movies and many, many, many prostitutes,” the story states.
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Saadi Gaddafi was supposedly working on development issues, specifically making Libya a “new Hong Kong” in North Africa, instead it was all about sex.
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Security firm Garda World was hired by SNC to escort Gaddafi across the country as he picked up escorts in city after city.
The total bill was more than $30,000 and one Vancouver escort agency charged as much as $10,000 for a single session.
Bills from other escort agencies ranged from $600 to $7,500 per session.
Previous stories about the relationship between SNC-Lavalin and the Gaddafi family noted the lavish trips the company had paid for and the placement of Saadi Gaddafi’s wife was on the company payroll during the Libyan civil war.
http://torontosun.com/news/national/the-sex-side-of-the-snc-scandal
OTTAWA—The SNC-Lavalin scandal has blown up into a “constitutional crisis,” lawyers say, after former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould’s shocking testimony Wednesday.
It’s clear Wilson-Raybould was removed from her position as justice minister for “doing her job,” said Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a former Saskatchewan provincial court judge who currently teaches and practises law.
“It’s fair to say it’s a constitutional crisis,” Turpel-Lafond said Wednesday night.
The events, as outlined by Wilson-Raybould in marathon testimony before the House of Commons justice committee, “shake the foundations of our very system,” Turpel-Lafond said.
Wilson-Raybould told MPs she was repeatedly and inappropriately pressured by senior members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s staff, as well as the country’s top bureaucrat, to cut a deal for SNC-Lavalin to avoid criminal trial on charges of fraud and corruption.
Instead, Wilson-Raybould said the Prime Minister’s Office was pushing for a “deferred prosecution agreement,” which would allow the Quebec construction giant to pay a fine and overhaul its corporate governance.
Wilson-Raybould refused, and found herself shuffled to a different cabinet portfolio in January.
Former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant agreed the scandal amounts to a constitutional crisis, saying Trudeau seems insistent on “interfering with the prosecution.”
“That conflicts with a system that requires independence from political influence. It opens the door to prosecuting enemies of the government and giving immunity to its friends which is despotic,” Bryant, who is now the executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, told the Star.
He said the actions of the PMO, as laid out by Wilson-Raybould, undermine public faith in the independence of the judicial process.
In the fallout from Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called on Trudeau and Michael Wernick, the clerk of the privy council, to resign.
Irwin Cotler, a former Liberal attorney general of Canada, said he doesn’t believe Trudeau should step down or that “there was an intent on the part of the government to cross the line.”
“I believe that they felt they were asking her to engage in what they believed was a matter of public policy for the importance of Canada and the importance of Quebec, jobs and the like, which she acknowledged was OK,” Cotler said.
But at a minimum, Turpel-Lafond said the RCMP’s integrity section must investigate, noting that 11 highly placed people in the PMO, the public service and cabinet were named by Wilson-Raybould as lobbying her or her staff on the issue.
“The consequences for that is that our reputation as a nation of the rule of law will be in tatters if we do not take steps,” Turpel-Lafond said.
“And the steps need to be significant, decisive.”
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday won the public support of a top political ally, indicating there is no immediate pressure inside his Liberal Party to oust him over a political scandal.
Trudeau, rejecting an opposition call for his resignation, disputed allegations on Wednesday by his former justice minister that government officials inappropriately pressured her to help the SNC-Lavalin construction firm avoid a corruption trial
The testimony from Jody Wilson-Raybould threatens to badly damage the Liberals just months ahead of what polls suggest will be a hard-fought election.
In an unusual move, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to say she fully backed Trudeau.
"I have 100 percent faith in the prime minister," she said.
Freeland, one of the most prominent members of Trudeau's Cabinet, is seen by some observers as a possible successor to Trudeau.
One top official said there was no talk for now of a leadership challenge. But another senior member of the Liberal Party said there was growing unhappiness among legislators about how Trudeau's team had handled the matter and said the prime minister needed to replace some of his staff.
Wilson-Raybould said she had confronted Trudeau in September over what she said were persistent efforts by officials to help SNC-Lavalin evade trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials. Wilson-Raybould said she made clear she was not prepared help the company avoid a trial, which is now pending.
SNC-Lavalin is a major employer in the province of Quebec, where the Liberals have said they need to pick up seats to stand a chance of retaining a majority government.
Trudeau was due to speak to reporters at about 11:15 a.m. EST (1615 GMT) and Finance Minister Bill Morneau has a news conference scheduled for noon.
Wilson-Raybould said Morneau's staff had continued to press her to help the firm even after she asked them to stop.
Wilson-Raybould was unexpectedly demoted in January and resigned from the Cabinet this month. She said she was convinced the SNC-Lavalin case had prompted her demotion.