ProTip: Next time the RCMP come calling with questions, cite ‘cabinet confidentiality’.
The RCMP has been looking into potential obstruction of justice in the handling of the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., but its examination has been stymied by the federal government’s refusal to lift cabinet confidentiality for all witnesses, The Globe and Mail has learned.
This means individuals involved in the matter cannot discuss events or share documents with police that have not been exempted from the rule of cabinet confidentiality, according to sources, who The Globe agreed not to identify so they could discuss the RCMP inquiries.
In Canada, the principle of cabinet confidentiality is intended to allow ministers to debate decisions freely in private. As a result, discussions involving cabinet matters must be kept secret unless a waiver is granted. In the SNC matter, the Liberals say that the Clerk of the Privy Council, who heads the bureaucratic agency that serves the Prime Minister’s Office, made the decision not to offer a broad waiver to either the RCMP or to the Ethics Commissioner, and that the PMO played no role.
A source who was recently interviewed by the RCMP told The Globe that investigators indicated they are looking into possible obstruction of justice. The Criminal Code says obstruction of justice occurs when an effort is made to “obstruct, pervert or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding.”
The national police force will pause the operation because of the coming election campaign. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to go to Rideau Hall Wednesday to ask the Governor-General to dissolve Parliament and call the vote for Oct. 21, and the RCMP has a policy to suspend politically sensitive operations during campaigns.
And on the eve of an election call. (They’ll question the timing)
It’s time to revolt.
Now when Trudeau wins his majority, they can have a Special Inquiry with a Special Hand Picked Liberal Judge to question Trudeau and he can talk about golf balls like Chretien did in the Adscam theft of 300M during the last Quebec Referendum . Since when should Cabinet Confidentiality over ride Criminal Justice. Canada is a Gulag, Canadians deserve all they get, Canada needs to be dismantled. Yet I hear idiots daily talking about how wonderful Canada is, Canada is a GULAG. Canadians are in VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE and do not know it.
So now instead of Liberals investigating Liberals, it’s RCMP investigating Liberals.
Walter, it is good to be a political crook in Canada, everything illegal is legal, wtf????
The only sound reason for blocking this investigation is that the Liberal Party of Canada is guilty.
The imbecile Trudeau will be trekking to Rideau Hall tomorrow to make the call for an election.
Can you imagine the shitstorm if the RCMP arrested a Liberal MP anytime in the next 6 weeks and held them for impeding an investigation?
PMO to the Cops:
“Ah shut uppa you face.”
Cops:
“Ok.”
Nothing is going to happen.
Big pass from the Press.
Prediction: Big win for the brat in October’s election.
Congrats to Conservative Brian Pallister though.
Big win for the brat in October’s election.
Just what we need: at least 4 more years of Prinz Dummkopf’s FIGJAM attitude. (Look that term. It fits him perfectly.)
Ha!
That Narcissist is no good and we won’t ask him….!
“And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.”
As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 25.
How convenient for the Libs eh..?
What a colossal joke.
And the band plays on….Nothin to see here – move along now. (Raus – Schnell..!!)
So goes things in the Fascist Republic of CanaZuela.
“The national police force will pause the operation because of the coming election campaign.”
Really? I have a passing familiarity with the Criminal Code of Canada and I cannot remember the bit where it states, “During election campaigns, criminal investigations into the conduct of sitting politicians shall be suspended.”
Nor, frankly, is Cabinet Confidentiality in Criminal Matters a thing.
This is where the Conservatives can run up big points. Why is the investigation suspended? Why can’t the RCMP pierce Cabinet Confidentiality to get their man? And, hey, while Trudeau is the ultimate target, when did the gunsels like Butts and Telford get Cabinet Confidentiality immunity? They are not in Cabinet.
Oh my goodness, of course they stop investigating during an election, the media stops reporting too. This is an unwritten Canadian rule.
Don’t you recall them closing down the entire Duffy fiasco during the last election
Grist for the mill. Let sockboy win. Let everyone finally see that the RCMP are only good for wearing nice uniforms and riding horses to music.
The West has grown sufficiently that it makes as much sense for Alberta to be ruled by Ottawa, as it makes for Ottawa to be ruled by the British Colonial Office in London. Let sockboy provoke independence. It is past time for the West to leave the nest and fly its own way.
“This country, it belongs to us…” Justine the Turdhole, lead actor of the First Post Nation State. No one seriously believed the RCMP would “investigate” the crime bosses of the Libranos did they..? Heinrich Butts, Weird-dick, Turdhole, fa-get-about-it, over here… Hey, if the Libranos could steal 100’s of millions of dollars from the treasury, hand that money over to the Mafia in Queerbek and do so over decades and decades without a single Librano being charged or thrown in jail then I think its pretty safe to assume that they can get away with just about anything at anytime. The corruption of Turdholeland is spectacular.
“The national police force will pause the operation because of the coming election campaign.”
Justice delayed is justice denied. This is CORRUPTION. This is exactly why there should be no pause with a coming election.
Prime Minister Trudeau is corrupt. The Trudeau Liberal government is corrupt. The RCMP is corrupt.
This is an Outrage!
Oz, this is way beyond corruption , this is dictatorial communism at it’s best. Canada, the home of the stupid and the land of the not so free.
Good article by the two Globe and Mail writers, Daniel LeBlanc and Robert Fife. Mr. LeBlanc was the lead investigative reporter, way back when during the AdScam scandal, and Robert Fife is the current lead reporter in the current obstruction-of-justice scandal. True, the Globe is leftist and pro-Liberal, but at least these two reporters cannot be bought off. We can hope the dominant media cartel will republish the findings of this article, to kick off this election.
Btw, congratulations Kate on the 18th SDA aniversary.
Oops! No SDA aniversary. No coffee this morning, but Kate you do good work anyways.
The third season of Bad Blood will just be video of the Liberal caucus.
If the average person can’t legally hide something from a police investigation, then neither should any politician, sitting or not. If an investigation into my behaviour doesn’t stop during an election campaign, neither should that into political operatives, sitting in government or not.
Canadians are equal before the law, or they are not. Corruption is much too mild a word.
Related, I continue to be amazed by how many judges seem to be unable to read and understand the laws upon which they are expected to issue rulings. Supposedly, a Scottish court ruled that it’s unlawful for a PM to prorogue Parliament. Who knew?
“And on the eve of an election call. (They’ll question the timing)”
Not sure who “They” refers to. As for timing, after obstructing the SNC-Lavalin Group investigation, the timing is the government’s.
Funny thing is, the Criminal Code only recognizes two kinds of immunity/privilege: client to lawyer communications, and communications between spouses….and even then only under certain circumstances.
So, lay the f*&^%$g charges, subpoena all the bastards, and lets see how our bought-and-paid-for press performs.