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

Ron in Regina

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Sort'a probably maybe?: http://globalnews.ca/news/7206645/justin-trudeau-we-charity-committee/

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed on Wednesday that Trudeau has agreed to attend at a date that is still undetermined. The decision comes roughly one hour after Finance Minister Bill Morneau admitted to the finance committee that he on Wednesday repaid more than $41,000 in unpaid travel expenses from two family trips to visit WE Charity facilities in Kenya and Ecuador.

Trudeau's close adviser, Katie Telford, also has agreed to testify at the finance committee on a date to be determined.

Conceivably:

Both Morneau and Trudeau are the subjects of an investigation by the federal ethics commissioner over the deal and their failures to recuse themselves from discussions on the matter. The WE Charity has paid Trudeau’s family members hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees while Morneau’s two daughters both have close ties to the organization. Both have apologized and said the matter was a mistake. "Whoopsie...but won't someone think of the Children!?!"

Both a government and charity official confirmed the controversial Canada Student Service Grant contract was not with WE Charity, as Trudeau announced. Rather, the government gave the contract to the WE Charity Foundation, which is a distinct charity with no track record.The WE Charity Foundation was incorporated as recently as January 2018. It was described by WE as inactive in August 2018 and only became a federally registered charity in April 2019. Its stated purpose was to hold tens of millions worth of WE Charity real estate. (But that never happened)

However, this investigation marks the third ethics probe of Trudeau’s behaviour specifically, following previous investigations into the SNC-Lavalin affair and a vacation his family took on the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.

Questions about the questionable:

My question with respect to the Charities & Charity Foundations & We Charity & We Charity Foundation, etc.....how far away where transfers between We Charity Foundation and We Charity and other foundations and charities like the Trudeau Foundation or some of the charities under the portfolio management of Morneau Shepell Asset & Risk Management? Is this a big leap at this point? How many other Liberal Cabinet Ministers and their friends and family members are tied up in this that we don't know about?

Perchance: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-we-charity-contract-1.5659172

This WE Charity (which turned out to be the WE Charity Foundation shell company with no assets) is the one we have found out about (so far). Which ones don't we know about yet???
 

Ron in Regina

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No need to confine your confusion to one thread
I did not start either Thread, but as a service to those trying to follow these shenanigans at some future date, I'm just connecting the dots to make it easier for them.

Eventually when Justin Trudeau (if he lasts that long) is in front of his fourth or fifth ethics inquiry, and someone is trying to follow the bouncing ball of filth and entitlement surrounding his terms as PM and wondering "What where these people thinking?"....this might help demonstrate that not all Canadians had drank the Liberal Koo-lade and that some of us could see what was happening while it was happening instead of just in the clarity of hind-site.
 

Hoid

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You are a valuable member of the team.

I can't help but look back on all you connecting the dots on Harper's many and varied scandals over the years.
 

Ron in Regina

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You are a valuable member of the team.

I can't help but look back on all you connecting the dots on Harper's many and varied scandals over the years.
History is most clearly seen in hind-site from a future standpoint, and while one is in the middle of transpiring events it can be a 'forest for the trees' type of thing. Weirdly, our debates here and now might be looked back at in some future point (does anything on the intewebs actually go away?) by someone trying to get a grasp on what was going through our heads during this (for us) current time, just like how they look back on the "Jim Crow" era in the south-east US or the average citizen in "Nazi Germany" during or before WW2 to try to understand how things like that where ever allowed to happen in the first place.

Yes, Harper had his own scandals, as does Trudeau Jr, and some future historian or curious person will be able to look back and read about them for themselves, but these threads will give an insight into how people thought during this (for us) current era. I honestly believe that in a century or 1/2 a century, looking back, PM Harper will be seen as one of the better Canadian PM's & Trudeau Jr will be seen as one of the worst we inflicted upon ourselves, but that's neither here nor there....
 

Hoid

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It is both here and there.

You are a total partisan hack who is not even very good at what he does.
 

gerryh

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It is both here and there.
You are a total partisan hack who is not even very good at what he does.

Actually, it is you that is the very obvious partisan hack. Your partisanship towards trudeau is beyond obvious. It's as if you see him as Canadas messiah who can do no wrong, when in fact, he has been doing wrong since he gained the liberal leadership and has turned the party into his own personal dictatorship.
 

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It is both here and there.

You are a total partisan hack who is not even very good at what he does.


Looks like you've been reading that book written by Dale Carnegie...………."How to Win Friends and Influence People" (You might want to read it again) :)
 

taxslave

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I did not start either Thread, but as a service to those trying to follow these shenanigans at some future date, I'm just connecting the dots to make it easier for them.
Eventually when Justin Trudeau (if he lasts that long) is in front of his fourth or fifth ethics inquiry, and someone is trying to follow the bouncing ball of filth and entitlement surrounding his terms as PM and wondering "What where these people thinking?"....this might help demonstrate that not all Canadians had drank the Liberal Koo-lade and that some of us could see what was happening while it was happening instead of just in the clarity of hind-site.
Hoid is the one pouring the koolaid. Looks like he drank a whole jug himself.
 

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Conservatives seek investigation into Canada’s outsourced $84M rent subsidy program

The Conservative Party wants to know who was responsible for outsourcing the federal government's $84 million rent subsidy program during the novel coronavirus pandemic, which was awarded to a company where the spouse of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, holds a senior vice-president position.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre said he would be submitting a request to the lobbying commissioner for an investigation on Monday.

"So often when governments make programs unnecessarily complicated, it's not out of incompetence, it's because somebody stands to benefit from all of the complexity," he said.

Read more: What is the WE Charity scandal and who are the Kielburger brothers?

"We want to know how that decision happened. Who pushed this multi-billion dollar program out of the department where it belonged so that it would be contracted to a company that just happened to have, as its senior vice president, the husband of the prime minister's chief of staff?"

On Friday, the Globe and Mail reported that Telford's husband, Robert Silver, senior vice-president of independent mortgage finance company MCAP, had a meeting with the Crown corporation responsible for the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program.

The contract was first awarded to MCAP in May. Alex Wellstead, a spokesperson from the Office of the Prime Minister, said Telford set up a voluntary ethics screen test to determine if she was in breach of the Conflict of Interest Act long before MCAP was selected to administer the program......More