Oh, Shiny Librano!

Shiny Pony SNC Lavalin The Libranos 63 Comments

Pay to play. (link fixed!)

Since he became Liberal leader in April 2013, gifts to the Foundation have increased significantly. Donations went from $172,211 in 2015 to $731,753 in 2016, while foreign donations from 0 in 2007 to $535,000 in 2016.
 
Some of Canada’s largest corporations including Air Canada, BMO, Suncor and Resolute Forest Products — have sponsored Trudeau Foundation conferences. While others like Bombardier even have members of their board of directors on the board of the Trudeau Foundation.

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63 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Librano!”

  1. Yeah, the Clinton Foundation template. I imagine instead of FOB (friend of Bill), they use some other acronym in the various government departments. ADT (amie de Trudeau) maybe?

      1. I would have to be in French, the tongue of the master race.

        How do you say übermensch in French? Untermensch (western Canada)?

    2. “the Clinton Foundation template”

      Access to Secretary of State Clinton required a serious donation to the Clinton Foundation. Even the Russians knew that.

  2. Pay to play…Justin following the Hillary Playbook to a tee. Not that previous Liberals hadnt mind you. Kate, I think your heading yesterday on the SNC thing was 100% bang on. Were this an actual “Truthful-Honest” PM, I might have given some slack.

    Justin is as far from Truthful-Honest as dog shit is a hearty breakfast.
    We truly live in a Fascist Country.

  3. I we got rid of the secret ballot, and the like, then everyone who had ever voted, or donated, or volunteered, or anything for the Liberal party could be tracked down, and their money and other possessions forcibly taken from them.

    Unfortunately, useful idiots always start from the position of “it must be a good idea if a socialist suggested it, because they care and no socialist has ever lied)”.

    Universal/single payer health care.
    Defined benefit pensions.
    Pensions.
    Retirement.
    RRSP.
    Government indoctrination (I mean education).
    Government power grids.
    Government roads.
    Property tax.
    Wealth tax.
    Cigarette tax.
    Gas tax.
    Value added tax.
    Death tax.
    Inheritance tax.
    Income tax.
    Sales tax….

    1. Nicely and concisely summarized. Seriously, we need a law that forbids these “foundations” from accepting donations while any principal figure wields political power. Otherwise our politics and policies are at the mercy of globalist billionaires and foreign governments that seek to harm us.

  5. I am just so happy that Justin has such high ethical standards. We wouldn’t want taxpayer money getting funnelled into any of these nefarious Foundations. Oops, my bad. Disregard my opening statement. FREE SASKABERTA!!!

  7. We shouldn’t forget the major donor to the Trudeau Foundation was PM Jean Chterien who donated $125 million to the foundation just after it started up. Where Jeanny got the money,I have NO idea, possibly he was just very good at budgeting in his household, probably a lot of kraft dinner eaten at Jeanny’s.

    The donations to the TF are sure small time, when you compare them to some of the donations to the Clinton Foundation,I guess the Trudeaus really a ARE “small potatoes”.

    1. Don, I studied the Trudeau Foundation for a bit a number of years ago, and the initial funding (start-up money) came from a federat budget — it’s taxpayer money. — David Murrell, Economics, UNB at Fredericton.

    2. Chretien claimed that after he left politics (he was forced out) he had to get a ‘mortgage ‘ to purchase a home.

      The mortgage holder is non other than his son in law.

      Who is da liddle thief’s son in law you ask? Well he’s a Desmarais….. yes those Desmarais’ of Power Corp.

    3. Have you also ever wondered where Lyin Brian got his millions? Probably the same place the Shawinigan Strangler got his millions. I suspect it all came from the same buying politicians slush fund.

    4. in Jean Croutons case, he became a very rich man by going into politics… he wasn’t afraid to use the RCMP as his personal gestapo either, like when they kicked down the door of the President of the BDC and ransacked his house because the guy wouldn’t hand over some cash to one of Croutons criminal buddies…. got away with that one too the old bastard. Corrupt third world shithole gonna third world shithole I guess

  8. Quite a few of Canada’s prominent and unbiased journalists are also big donors to the foundation. This may or may not be a conflict of interest but when big donations by journalists are combined with constantly playing defense for Trudeau/Liberals plus the journalist’s media employers are lining up for a Liberal designed taxpayer bailout…the optics looks horrible.

    As for Lavscam : A culture of corruption is endemic in Quebec so when you add in a prime minister from Quebec, it virtually guarantees these types of scandals. Chretien and Adscam, Mulroney and Schreiber, Trudeau and Lavscam. Quebec businesses plus Quebec prime ministers is a timeless Canadian love story of corrupt kindred souls.

    Quebec is by far the dirtiest province in Canada, a national embarrassment.

      1. I am reminded of the last line in the 1970’s movie “Chinatown” with Jack Nicholson. “Forget about it Jake, it’s Chinatown”. But I would now say “Forget about it ROC, it’s Quebec”. Quebec has been corrupt since at least the late 1960’s, when I became politically aware in high school. Perhaps even before this.

        1. BM, Quebec corruption probably goes back to days they had to fight off the Iroquois, but I have no proof of that.
          Google Camillien Houde and Maurice Duplessis, 1930’s to 1950’s. Quebec was as corrupt as the average third world country.

          The Montreal construction scandal of a couple of years back only showed the proverbial tip of the ‘berg, it’s always been crooked and always will be.

      2. I don’t understand the Quebec peoples tolerance of corruption. Their politicians and businesses continuously make Quebec look like a banana republic. Aren’t they embarrassed? Nope, despite SNCLav’s long history of bribery and corruption, Quebecers see SNC as a jewel of Quebec. Despite Adscam , Quebec voted for another corrupt Liberal party and likely will again this year. This says alot about the province and its people.

        When Saskatchewan people discovered the PC party of Sask was corrupt SOBs, they didn’t just vote them out. They completely destroyed the party and then salted the earth around the rubble. There is no longer a Sask PC party, it was annihilated. It’s why the NDP governed Saskatchewan for so many years after the PCs despite NDP incompetence. Voters were punishing conservatives. Most still snarl and swear if you mention Devine.

    2. LC, Jeffrey Simpson serves as an advisor on the Trudeau Foundation, a paid position. For the longest time he was the featured Globe and Mail columnist, writing on national poitical affairs. Needless to say, virtually all of his writing back then supported the Liberals, just like nearly all of Globe opinion supports the Liberals.

      1. At the very least, journalists should have to disclose their personal and business connections.

        It’s not just Trudeau’s foundation. It’s connections through marriage and their spouses or children’s employment. Intermarriage and nepotism between politics and political journalism is everywhere in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto. They can’t investigate Liberal politicians properly because Liberal politicians are either their family and their family’s employer. Conflict of interest all around.

        Now they’re taking $600 million in Liberal government bailouts, which puts political journalists even deeper into conflict of interest problems.

      2. To say nothing of CTV’s Chief Political Correspondent Craig Oliver, longtime Ottawa Bureau Chief and Trudeau(hork)Senior best friend and canoe cuddler. His and CTV’s pride in the Spawn shines through.

        Kate should run a contest to find a Canadian “journalist” that doesn’t have a selfie with the Little Twerp.

        “AJ” Librano running a country. Gadzooks.

        1. Two other examples:

          1. Don Newman, after he retired from the CBC News “Politics” show, now is chairman of the advisory board of Canada 2020, a left-wing think tank with strong ties to the Liberal party;

          2. Jason Moscovitz, one-time chief national political correspondent for CBC News, in 2001 took a Liberal patronage job with the federal Business Development Bank of Canada, as chief information officer.

          Both Newman and Moscovitz were instrumental in minimizing the importance of AdScam in CBC News reporting, as the scandal was starting to gather steam. Note that the Business Development Bank was fingered by the Gomerey. Commission, for unethical activities in AdScam.

          1. That little prick Newman once claimed to be the “conservative standard bearer” in Ottawa, in reply to an email I sent him calling him out on his BS.

            I call selling out your country and countrymen something different.

    3. One thing that’s overlooked in the discussions over Lavscam (I like the name!) is the effect this has on the engineering profession.

      I’m unfamiliar with Quebec legislation regarding Ordre des Ingenieurs du Quebec (OIQ), but in the provinces I’m registered in, including Alberta, any firm that offers engineering services requires official permission to do so. That permit is subject to renewal and is bestowed by the professional body, acting on behalf of the provincial government. Some firms may surrender them because they’re no longer engaged in engineering or simply go out of business. Others, however, are struck from the register because they have been found in violation of the law or, in some cases, all the practitioners on staff have been subject to professional discipline.

      Since SNC-Lavalin would, presumably, have a permit to practice, and since it’s been engaging in illegal activities, it should, by extension, be required to return it. If a major engineering firm can get away with that sort of thing, what will the general public think about individual practitioners?

      1. BA that is a good point… except Quebec is so corrupt that bribery is considered normal and proper business.

  9. There’s new info on this scandal, so here’s the running tally:

    -SNC has a history of bribing government employees and politicians
    -SNC was already found guilty of illegal donations to the Liberal Party
    -SNC lobbied Liberals for help in a current corruption case
    -Liberals then enacted new laws that would help SNC avoid criminal penalties
    -SNC was refused access to new process
    -SNC lobbies Liberals again
    -Liberal PMO allegedly pressure AG to pressure commission to allow SNC to use new process
    -AG refuses and is shortly thereafter fired.
    – The new Liberal AG is from SNC’s riding in Quebec
    -Trudeau won’t waive solicitor-client confidentiality for the previous AG which would allow her to talk about the SNC scandal
    -Trudeau also directs Liberal committee members, who are the majority, to refuse to allow parliamentary investigation into the SNC scandal
    -The progressive media begins a character assination campaign against the former AG, an indigenous woman lawyer, at the behest of our “feminist, aboriginal reconciliation” prime minister

  10. Watch the media , especially CBC , CTV and Global go into Trudeau rescue mode , to bury the story dies within a few months. Contrast that with the legal loan (not gov money) to Mike Duffy which was kept in the news for two years to take down Harper.

    If you have any doubts regarding the media , Trudeau has set up a proposed $595M fund to pay off the media under the guise of saving Canadian media.

    Secret Meeting to discuss distribution of $595M “bailout”
    Trudeau hired an American (Hillary Clinton staffer) to facilitate the meeting , likely in the hopes of keeping it secret.
    https://youtu.be/kOfOQYXk4ro

  11. The irrelevant media can bury it all they want. No one trusts them anyways.
    My question is will that smiling idiot Scheer have the basic ability to keep this issue alive. I say he doesn’t. He is completely unfit for the job.

    1. It is not arrest the sheriff time. It is more like a Bob Marley song from 1973 time for the sheriff. Only the deputies don’t get off easy in this version.

  14. The template predates Clinton by several decades. The liberal party of Quebec and the Quebec wing of the federal party have been doing this since the sixties – maybe earlier.

    For example Up until a few years ago (I’m not sure of the present) the LPQ actually owned quite a bit of real estate and a real estate firm to manage it.

  16. This is one reason why campaign finance ‘reform’ is such a bad idea (besides the fact that it’s an assault on freedom of speech). With donation limits, the money gets moved around through less efficient more opaque channels.

  17. Time to open investigations up into all the Liberal backed companies. Power Corp, Bombardier, SNC, CSL etc.

    Come on RCMP! Do the Canadian taxpayers HAVE to shame you into doing your job???

  19. Why are you so surprised. Turd jr. like turd sr. is a liar and a thief and more the pity he doesn’t even know what those two words mean.

  21. They get away with this crap because they can . The media are willing accomplices and I don’t see any end in sight .

  23. Their outrage will be long gone by the time the writ is dropped later this year.
    The link to the Huawei CEO extradition case was ludicrous.
    They are not related in any way, unless you count the MacCallum political doofus as a factor.
    All their promises of transparency and “rule of law” have fallen on deaf ears but is doesn’t change legal facts in evidence.
    There is the connection to the Admiral Norman case for two reasons.
    First, as knuckle dragger Bob pointed out, documents are being withheld from the Admiral’s defense team.
    Second, the Grits risk being outed as being privy to yet another example of influence peddling and scheming.
    As for political hay, if the Tories play this right, going after facts not just indignation and jumping to conclusions, it’s a winner.
    Like I said the Ottawa centric Grit sycophants posing as journalists will have this tamped down soon.
    After all, nothing really “happened,” though it does depend on what the meaning of is is, the heck with Norman btw.
    I don’t trust one of them as far as I can throw them. They are trash merchants who set out to deceive Canadians every day.

  24. Former board members of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

    Paul G. Desmarais
    Paul Desmarais jr.
    Hon. William G. Davis
    Louise Fréchette
    Milton K. Wong
    Robert Lacroix
    Hon. Marc Lalonde
    Peter Lougheed
    L. Jacques Ménard
    Heather Munroe-Blum
    Martha Piper
    Bob Rae
    Jacques Hébert
    Louise Houle
    Bruce McNiven

    You could say this is a well connected Foundation. Note Peter Lougheed, Bill Davis. it’s one big exclusive club,and we are on the outside.

    3. Unless the board uses ouija boards to conduct its meetings, I rather doubt that Lougheed would still be a member. Point taken, though. There are a lot of well-known names associated with that body.

      Martha Piper being one of the members is rather interesting. She’s a career academic, which included being president of UBC. According to a reference on her Wikipedia page, she’s also a member of the Trilateral Commission, which was founded by David Rockefeller. Hmmmm……

  26. the previous Attorney General stated it was Attorney Client privilege that prevents her from speaking. I guess someone forgot to tell her that the clients are the people of Canada not the Prime Minister. He is simply an objection in the way of the truth. I would suggest the RCMP be involved, but they have proven to be totally useless in any of these investigations.
    The main stream media ran the Duffy story for about two years, this story will be put to bed in about two weeks.

  27. In 2006, I was trolling the internet a lot.
    There was about $6 billion floating around, in “Foundations” support from the feds.
    Unaudited, unacountable

  28. Perhaps this can be played a different way.
    Lets accept the allegations are false.
    Lets also accept that the Globe published in good faith from a so-called reliable source.
    If this is to be taken as true then the liberals need to find this government employee that is putting this “fake news” out there.
    Let me digress.
    I have no way of confirming or denying what is or isn’t true, but there is an unholy alliance between the LPC the media and a good score of the public service. I am confident that no matter if the allegations are true the perps will never be brought to justice. The best to hope for is that this starts a civil war between them and they end up attacking each other.

    1. In the previous post I left out a couple points.
      – if the Globe is printing a false allegation then why isn’t the press council being asked to investigate
      – if there is a mole in the public service trying to “effect the outcome of the next election” why isn’t team Sockmonkey investigating to find this “saboteur”?

    1. He demonstrated that he could be bought when he served the dairy cartel. Lavalin sees a solid investment. Linda L. will still be voting for him no matter what.

  30. So if obstruction of justice can impeach and remove Trump can it also do the same with a sitting Canadian PM?

  31. You all remember how certain the Liberals and Media(yes I repeat) were that Harper’s People were corrupt.
    Because they knew they would be if the roles were reversed.
    Interesting times,the effeet elites so are certain they have won, they make no effort to hide their thieving ways.
    Who knows, this might be a fatal mistake.
    We can only hope.

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