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  • #16
    There doesn't seem to be any let up. Here's another story about Wilson-Raybould releasing corroborating documentation

    Source: Fresh documents keep up pressure on Canada's Trudeau over scandal


    A former cabinet member at the heart of a crisis that could cost Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau his job on Friday released documents to back up her case that she had been pressured to help a large corporation avoid a corruption trial.

    Trudeau has been on the defensive since Feb. 7 over allegations that officials inappropriately leaned on former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould last year to ensure construction company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc escaped a trial by paying a fine instead.

    The crisis may well threaten Trudeau’s reelection chances in a vote this October. Polls show his center-left Liberals, who as recently as January looked certain to win, could lose to the official opposition Conservatives.

    Wilson-Raybould made public around 40 pages of documents revealing more details of what she said were attempts by officials to force her change her mind even after she insisted they desist.

    Wilson-Raybould, who was demoted to veterans affairs minister in January and resigned the following month, first made the allegations in almost four hours of testimony to the House of Commons justice committee last month.

    Trudeau says officials were trying to make Wilson-Raybould understand that thousands of jobs would be at risk if SNC-Lavalin were found guilty of bribing Libyan officials. Trudeau insists he and his team did nothing wrong.

    The affair has so far cost Trudeau two high-profile female cabinet ministers, his closest personal aide and the head of the federal bureaucracy, Michael Wernick.

    Wilson-Raybould included a recording of a phone call with Wernick last December in which he told her he was worried about “a collision” between her and Trudeau “because he is pretty firm about this.”

    Wilson-Raybould, who stressed she thought the call was inappropriate, told Wernick she was waiting “for the other shoe to drop” because she was under no illusion about how Trudeau “gets things that he wants.”

    Opposition legislators said the documents reinforced their demand for a public inquiry into the matter, something Trudeau says is not necessary.

    “She is actually trying to speak truth to power, trying to say, ‘You can’t do this,’ ... and it keeps happening,” New Democratic Party parliamentarian Nathan Cullen told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

    Trudeau’s office was not immediately available for comment.

    The crisis is opening rifts inside the Liberal Party and some legislators want Wilson-Raybould to be kicked out of the parliamentary caucus, a move Trudeau has so far resisted.



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    Trudeau says officials were trying to make Wilson-Raybould understand that thousands of jobs would be at risk if SNC-Lavalin were found guilty of bribing Libyan officials. Trudeau insists he and his team did nothing wrong.


    FWIU, the company was threatening to move their HQ to London if the investigation continued. But aren't they in effect a construction company? And with construction companies you do the work on site. IOW, they can't, say, build a bridge in London and then ship it across the Atlantic for it to be installed somewhere in Canuckistan. They would still have to do the work in Canuckistan and hire Canuckistanis to do it.

    So aside from the fact that Trudeau and his cronies seem fine with being blackmailed into letting a corporation get off scot free for flagrantly violate the law, but the threat seems rather impotent as well.

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    • #17
      The crisis is opening rifts inside the Liberal Party and some legislators want Wilson-Raybould to be kicked out of the parliamentary caucus, a move Trudeau has so far resisted.
      Trudeau has recommended that the caucus kick W-R out. That way he doesn't look like the bad guy in that situation.

      Why do they think that removing her from caucus is going to make the problem go away? It will likely just open up the door for more evidence against the PM and his cronies.

      I hope the momentum continues until the election in October.


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      • #18
        This just in today:

        https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/enou...ules-1.4442128

        MONTREAL -- A Quebec judge has ruled there is enough evidence to send SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. to trial on charges of fraud and corruption, surprising few and prompting a further tumble in the beleaguered firm's share price.

        "Given the threshold to be met by the prosecution at the stage of the preliminary inquiry, this outcome was expected," said SNC-Lavalin chief executive Neil Bruce in a statement.

        The company has previously pleaded not guilty and Bruce said that "we will vigorously defend ourselves to get the right outcome and be acquitted."

        The Montreal-based engineering and construction giant is accused of paying $47.7 million in bribes to public officials in Libya between 2001 and 2011. The company, its construction division and a subsidiary also face one charge each of fraud and corruption for allegedly defrauding various Libyan organizations of $129.8 million.

        The decision is the latest step in criminal proceedings that began last fall after SNC-Lavalin failed to secure a deferred prosecution agreement, a kind of plea deal that would have seen the firm agree to pay a fine rather than face prosecution.


        Hopefully Trudeau will end up in court with them.


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        • #19
          This Just-in...........



          OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, Canada’s ethics watchdog declared Wednesday—a bombshell report that leaves a substantial crater in the Liberal government’s road to re-election.

          Mario Dion concluded that Trudeau’s attempts to influence Wilson-Raybould on the matter contravened section 9 of the act, which prohibits public office holders from using their position to try to influence a decision that would improperly further the private interests of a third party.

          He said there’s little doubt that SNC-Lavalin’s financial interests would have been furthered had Trudeau succeeded in convincing Wilson-Raybould to overturn a decision by the director of public prosecutions, who had refused to invite the Montreal engineering giant to negotiate a remediation agreement in order to avoid a criminal prosecution on fraud charges related to contracts in Libya.

          “The prime minister, directly and through his senior officials, used various means to exert influence over Ms. Wilson-Raybould,” Dion wrote.

          “The authority of the prime minister and his office was used to circumvent, undermine and ultimately attempt to discredit the decision of the director of public prosecutions as well as the authority of Ms. Wilson-Raybould as the Crown’s chief law officer.”

          Dion said Trudeau also improperly pushed Wilson-Raybould to consider partisan political interests in the matter, contrary to constitutional principles on prosecutorial independence and the rule of law.


          https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ott...-commissioner/


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          • #20
            With luck he'll be back teaching French or whatever it was.

            I'm always still in trouble again

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            • #21
              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
              With luck he'll be back teaching French or whatever it was.
              Substitute drama.

              Sadly, there is no penalty for this. He can't be impeached or imprisoned or even fined.

              However, it certainly lowers his popularity rating and his chances of being re-elected in October.

              The jackass says he takes full responsibility for it all, but doesn't agree with the report.

              And I love how the media shows clips of him in February blatantly lying through his teeth about the issue and then these findings. It's great!


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                • #23
                  Originally posted by mossrose View Post
                  Substitute drama.

                  Sadly, there is no penalty for this. He can't be impeached or imprisoned or even fined.

                  However, it certainly lowers his popularity rating and his chances of being re-elected in October.

                  The jackass says he takes full responsibility for it all, but doesn't agree with the report.

                  And I love how the media shows clips of him in February blatantly lying through his teeth about the issue and then these findings. It's great!
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                    No penalty? Now there's a law with teeth.
                    Yup. Pretty stupid, all right.


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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by mossrose View Post
                      Source: Canadians sour on Trudeau, less popular than Trump


                      Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, once celebrated as the start of a worldwide youth leadership movement, has lost his luster and is now suffering the same level of poor approval ratings that plagued President Trump in his first two years.

                      With both facing reelection, the latest Zogby Analytics survey found Trump at his highest approval rating, 51%, while Trudeau near his lowest, underwater at 43%.

                      In past reelections campaigns, presidents with 51% approval ratings have won.

                      “Trump's job approval is much better than his counterpart to the north, Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Under heavy scrutiny lately, Trudeau's popularity has dipped,” said the poll analysis shared with Secrets.

                      Trudeau is struggling with an ethics scandal.

                      The Zogby poll found that younger voters and those in urban areas of Canada are most approving of Trudeau.


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                      I think Trump's numbers may have taken a hit this past week.

                      I'm always still in trouble again

                      "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                      "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                      "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                      • #26
                        Election called today.

                        October 21.



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