Jody Wilson-Raybould — the former justice minister at the centre of claims that the Prime Minister’s Office pressured her to help Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution — has resigned from cabinet.
She tweeted a link to her resignation letter this morning.
The CBC quotes the letter only briefly, omitting some of the more interesting passages.
Oddly enough.
Related (from yesterday). Let Justin do the mansplainin’.
SNC-Lavalin case:
PM Trudeau says he's met w/ Jody Wilson-Raybould on current B.C. trip; says "she confirmed for me a conversation we had this fall, where I told her directly that any decisions on matters involving the director of public prosecutions were hers alone…" #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/sAswl6KE7G
— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) February 11, 2019
Sunny ways.
Organized crime!
Butts and Trudeau need to do some hard time in Kingston Pen, general population.
And have them keep sponging off the taxpayer?
Tie their ankles together and throw the two fairies off the top of the Peace Tower.
That, of course, is after they’ve been persuaded to make a full confession of their high crimes and misdemeanours, naming the names of the enemies of the Queen, private and sovereign, to whom they gave aid and comfort.
Trudy could lead the yearly pride parade there.
Here the CBC claims that it is normal to bribe foreign officials: https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/libya-snc-1.5014939 . No big deal?
Probably the first time in a long time that any Canadian government enterprise has been honest about where our taxpayer dollars go.
“CBC quotes the letter only briefly, omitting some of the more interesting passages”.
The new Pravda is in full damage control mode to protect the Liberal politburo.
“Trudeau also said he had “full confidence” in Wilson-Raybould and suggested she would have resigned from cabinet on principle if she had felt anyone had tried to improperly pressure her.”
“In our system of government, of course, her presence in cabinet should actually speak for itself,”
Heads up. Incoming. Does the corrorally apply too? No? Pause for pontification. At least nobody used their own money, right?
Add to this the PMO/PCO interface with the Crown’s Adm. Norman prosecution and we have a Grit bad hair day looming.
Such a mess and so little time for the mediocracy to airbrush this and clean up the mess by election day.
“Last month, Trudeau moved Wilson-Raybould out of the justice portfolio in a cabinet shuffle brought on by former minister Scott Brison’s departure from politics, elevating David Lametti as her replacement. Wilson-Raybould moved to Veterans Affairs.”
In her letter, the MP says that her decision “is in no way a reflection” on veterans, their families or their service. “I only wish that I could have served you longer,” she writes.”
Do I detect a smidgen of integrity here? Of course she’s still silenced. Where are the rankled rank and file on this?
At the “club?” Oh never mind.
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2019/02/12/newsalert-jody-wilson-raybould-resigns-from-cabinet-2/#.XGMBavZFzIW
Has Trudeau blamed Harper yet?
Won’t do him any good. Now he needs to sit down and write two letters.
He only needs to write one suicide note.
You mean Butts has to write one for Trudeau, he writes all his scripts.
The first one to fire acting-PM Butts, with a full accounting for use in Butts’ criminal trial for obstruction of justice, effective immediately.
The second one a letter of resignation as PM and Member of Parliament, including full apology, effective five minutes later…
I am commenting here as always, but my comments are disappearing. Am I blocked from posting here? I’ll try once more.
Please petition these MPs . They are the ones dealing with Trudeau’s crime here. Hurry please, time is short and pass this along if you can. We must get rid of that little shit who is destroying our country daily.
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So Jody Wilson-Raybould has resigned from cabinet, and has lawyered up. I think that the solicitor-client privilege issue is a red herring. A law society can only take away your licence to practice law and order smallish fines. The real issue is the oath of secrecy she took as a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada. That oath is enforced by the Security of Information Act (a.k.a. the Official Secrets Act), and she could be imprisoned for many years for violations. Her only out is to speak in the House of Commons, where whatever she says is inadmissible in court as part of Parliamentary immunity to prosecution.
She has lawyered UP…That means everyone in the Judicial circle will know everything… The Spud will resign & end his foolish political theater….No bag of money for you Spud…
She saw her opening and nailed him….Good Move….Go girl
Who is that idiot from the CBC who admits to paying bribes,,, Sure hope it came from his own pocket, but the CBC should be subject to a forensic Audit to make sure! Somehow it seems it may be CBC business as usual
Yeah, not sure that the Crime Minister will resign, he will stick it out and go full Selfie for his vain attempt at re-election. No matter what, his compliant Lauentian press is paid for and fully indentured to him.
But, there will be a resignation of a high level useful idiot, to show how ‘sorry’ they are (for being caught).
Privy Council Chair?
Butts? (Even money on the PM in hiding to fall on the sword)
Telford?
It won’t be Trudy, he’s not smart enough to have created the problem, but he is dumb enough not to realize it.
JWR holds all the cards and power right now, enjoy watching the LIEBrawls squirm in their stew.
Murray the Hunt, it is also a crime to help cover up a crime. She can, and should, make a private statement to a secure person.
She probably had about enough of Trudeau’s babbling on knowing what she knows about the whole matter.
Her resignation could be telling us she’s not a person who is going to sit back and be used as a pawn in this affair.
Clearly not. And from her short and curt resignation letter, she has a LOT to say. Apparently, she can speak in the HoC without recrimination. And one has to wonder where does Cabinet secrecy end where there is a criminal case underway, potentially involving the PMO? Ah Juthtin, you never faced this riverrafting or snowboarding…….
What’s that saying about a woman scorned? She’s kryptonite to Sunny ways. And the spin doctors are having fits trying to throw her under the bus without insulting the native or legal communities. Only the CBC will be devotedly defending Ponykind, destroying any ounce of integrity left in that flaming heap of a propaganda outfit
Wonder if Wilson-Raybould has any tapes? Maybe she is just waiting for Justin or Butts to get a little careless with what they say then BAM!
Lawyer client privilege may be a red herring, but Cabinet secrecy probably isn’t.
Courts have ruled that Cabinet Secrecy cannot be used to hinder the rule of law – i.e., to cover up a crime.
Um, um, ah, um ah, er, um. That should do it. The CBC will turn that into a air tight alibi.
HAHAHAHAHA!..Like!
Early days yet on this issue, although a Liberal quitting a Cabinet post doesn’t happen that often so maybe, just maybe there are Liberals out there with a smidgen of integrity, I’m not holding my breath.
Hopefully this will finally waken up a lot of Canadians that have continually refused to see the Liberal Party of Canada for what it is. Just as an afterthought are there any commentators here that would be interested in compiling a list of the misdemeanors and crimes that have been committed by the Liberals over the last fifty years in order that we can final put a stake in the heart of these bloodsuckers before the next election!
That’s a stick, pointy at both ends. I’m thinking of a certain Conservative PM notable for carrying paper bags stuffed with cash.
Not that you’re wrong of course, Antenor.
(Just to be clear, I intensely dislike Trudeau and his mindless BS. )
Who knew? That ‘direct’ would some day be a thing.
So he apparently doesn’t remember speaking to her on this important subject that got her fired or is this him reminding her and anyone else that the narrative that they must follow is that he had talked to her. Define a lie………anything that comes out of JT’s mouth.
Cabinet secrecy or not, I’d bet her story leaks out. There’s a lot of interest and it’s near an election. Since plan A, plan B and plan C didn’t work for Trudeau, his PMO and Trudeau’s bodyguards in the media…I suspect plan D will be to trump up some made up scandal about the CPC to get Trudeau out of the headlines. A juicy leak from the Liberal friendly federal bureacracy, perhaps? Tax info, social media pics, an affair?
Amusing sidebar: when news of JWR’s resignation broke, I couldn’t get an image out of my head. A dramatic scene from the movie Titanic. Trudeau is laying on a part of the doomed ship’s debris. He’s staring woefully into the eyes of Butts as Butts slowly fades away into the depths of the cold north Atlantic Ocean. Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On is heard as the broken ship, Sunny Ways, disappears under the waves. :-))
Alternative headline :
Kokanee Groper attacks another BC woman.
Once again he claims “different experiences” are to blame. In both cases, the women are not allowed to speak for themselves because an odd new twist : the old he said, she said conundrum has now become a case of he said, he’ll say what she said.
If she turns up dead in the next couple weeks, we will know whether she was going to talk, or support the narrative.
How many Liberalcides have there been?
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I find it hard to believe that in this day and age that there is actually (or potentially) a member of the LPOC with ethics
But there may be a few Liberals who are vulnerable and afraid.
She’s a newcomer. Probably does not understand how the Liberal culture works.
I can’t believe The Groper has found two……….two women who are speechless.
To think that most men go through life never meeting or even hearing echos about one.
LOL.
▶︎ Does lawyer client privilege remain enforceable if one of the parties was coercing one of the other parties to obstruct the course justice?
▶︎ Does the lawyer, in this lawyer client relationship, have a duty to inform the court of an attempt to obstruct justice?
▶︎ If the Cabinent weighed in on the issue in support of an attempt to obstruct the course of justice do they become co-conspirators and would their privilege also be in jeopardy?
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” Justice Louis D. Brandeis
“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” R v Sussex Justices, ex p McCarthy
The actions thus far seem to indicate someone is seeking vengeance as opposed to justice.
This issue is also sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
Any word on those unfortunate fellows in China under detention?
If she has any friends in Cabinet (or in the Liberal Party) they are probably feeling quite uncomfortable just now. I am hopeful that the stress will get worse and that we may see an actual rift happen.
I think the rift is already there because of the fact the story broke in the Globe and Mail and was not reported to the police.
If Scheer has any wits about him he’ll recruit her. An indigenous professional woman publicly committed to strong morals and ethics is exactly the sort of bridge builder Andy needs to attract to win a wide swath of confidence from Canadian voters.
Interesting thought.
Does she harbour any resentment to the CPCs attempt at native accountability?
Where would she run? Van-Burrard is not CPC territory. Her politics would really shade more ENDP than anything else. Or, for the national chief of the Indigenous. Now she knows the corruption from within.
If Jimmy Singh loses the by-election, she’d vastly improve that group of fools.
Would look too much like opportunism. I suspect she would not go for that.
If Scheer’s the next gov’t wouldn’t it make sense for the aboriginal community to vote to have representatives of their own on that side of the aisle? Opportunism can be change for the better if the motives aren’t strictly self serving.
Better to allow the Libs to rebuild their party around her for a future election. It would be interesting to see what a Liberal party built around somebody with integrity would look like…
But a Militant one.?. Her Dad is no friend of Canada.
Her language in the resignation letter sounds more patriot than militant. If there’s ever going to be healing between peoples it has to start somewhere with those that have the right hearts to promote it. Who knows, might even get a couple of pipelines built.
MB, might be a good idea,but I’ve never seen or heard JWR say anything good about the CPC ,Harper,or Scheer. They might not be a good fit.
As a former Indian activist, she might prefer the NDP who would be ecstatic to have her in their ranks,probably would dump Singh and make JWR leader.
The plot thickens. Cue the Hammond music in the background.
If she truly believes those words in her resignation letter she and those she can represent will be better served in a pro-business job creating poverty bond-breaking individual helping conservative government. I’m not saying that she’s Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus but it takes something good and strong inside to stand up against corruption especially in this day and age. That’s something I’d want on our side and Canada is served well by having people in power with such character. Andy could buy her a Tim’s. After all she could have handed him the key to the PM’s restroom.
In theory, it would help the CPC if she joined the NDP and was a more formidable opponent to JT than Singh is. Let’s see how the Burnaby by election goes?
Only thing is, she strikes me as a typical Vancouver Westside person and they are dyed in the wool BC Liberal and Federal Liberal supporters.
My guess is she’ll move to provincial politics. Her dad said he thinks she’d be more effective in local politics. She seem more progressive than conservative so if not Liberal then NDP or Green, perhaps.
She’s toxic. In politics your either a team player or a traitor who cannot be trusted. She fits into the later category. She has her reasons to quit but she hired a lawyer who has been, or maybe still is a mentor to the Trudeau Foundation.
So there is now another ethics probe and JWR has a lawyer…..that should run out the clock until after the election. The “I can’t comment as the matter is in the hands of the ethics commissioner,” is a legit response now.
If she refuses to speak up or there isn’t a smoking gun (not likely) what else might take place? This may ion fact be a PMO strategy.
“If Scheer has any wits about him he’ll recruit her.” Hopefully not as she made noises after the Stanley trial here in Saskatchewan that she was not happy with the verdict and sentence. I’m not sure how legal that was for her to make comments like that considering her position as Justice Minister. Her comment suggested that she thought justice was not done and Stanley should have been dealt with more severely. White man is always to blame even when a gang of thugs is raiding a rural farm yard.
So much for native reconciliation. This hasn’t been mentioned either, but one can’t help but think that JWR being slighted and virtually thrown aside, will have repercussions. And good on that, we all have known the infinite phony that the Crime Minister really is!
As an aside, is this what happens by leaving the country for two weeks, to the tropics? Sunny ways takes a mortal hit, and a raging snowstorm cripples the South Island.
I should go away more often!
Kids, gather round, and I will tell you the story of Cinderelleh and Prince Looming.
Cinderelleh always wanted to be a cabinet minister, and went to the Cabinet meeting. She had a great time inventing new genders and discussing changes in the weather with Climate Barbie who came as herself. She even righted some wrongs, while wronging some rights.
Prince Looming was there, of course, counting boy and girl pages and not forgetting to look for other kinds.
He was always looming, especially in the House, where sometimes he loomed a bit too close for some.
But Cinderelleh had to go home at midnight and she left her portfolio at the meeting. Prince Looming found it and said, “whoever this belongs to, they are wearing it.”
So he dropped around to every house in the village, and asked if the ladies there were missing a portfolio. Cinderelleh was so relieved when he came to her house. “Yes,” she exclaimed, “that was my portfolio. I was wearing it.”
“Well,” said Prince Looming. “Now you’re wearing it again just for me. SNC you very much. Nice to have known you.”
And Cinderelleh’s sisters said, “he’s a piece of work.”
To which she replied, “Yes, but wait until he finds out what the three bears did at Bombardier.”
Instant classic!
Meanwhile, CBC hacks are now openly admitting to bribing agents of foreign governments, because “it’s how things work in hopelessly corrupt countries” (their words, not mine).
I’m racking my brains to think of a CBC report that ever told me anything about “hopelessly corrupt countries” that wasn’t blindingly obvious (viz. that they are not worth trying to fix and Canada should avoid importing their problems). Not one comes to mind.
But thanks for being honest about where my tax dollars are going. For once.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/libya-snc-1.5014939
A.C., as a retire enjoying the amazing news, I took the day of other things to watch the wall-to-wall coverage, switching be teen the CBC and CTV News channels. And the CBC coverage is pretty bad, and the CTV coverage not much better. The defence of SNC Lavalin (“9,000 jobs in Quebec could be lost”, “SNC Lavalin is too big to fail”) was repeated a lot on the CBC.
This story is about corruption here in the west.
In quebek it’s about jobs. Corruption isn’t even on the radar. The libranos don’t care about the west – this story is all quebek.
It’s a vote getter and the CPC has their nuts in a wringer if they push quebek too hard. Just sayin’.
The bully, that is Justin Trudeau picked on the wrong woman.
The amateur political boxer thought he could push her into a corner and do his political enforcer routine. Jody Wilson-Raybould turns out to be a heavy hitter. She head butted him, and pushed her way out of the corner.
Now, she’s asked a top referee(ex-Supreme Court Justice) if she can take off the gloves and knock him down for the count or go full MMA on him and boot him out of ring.
By the evening of October 21st, look for the image of the teflon, boy boxer/bouncer Justin Trudeau, knocked out, lying on canvas, with Jody Wilson-Raybould, dressed as Wonder Woman standing over him.
Having Justin Trudeau trip himself up, was Andrew Scheer’s best hope for victory. He’s got lucky.
Jody Big-Screen is no hero. If she had any integrity she would never have joined the Libranos in the first place.
Yeah, Hillarew Scheer may be ahead in the polls, but Justin bros are close behind.
Trudeau might have f***ed with the wrong woman this time. Only late in life does he discover not all woman can be charmed, threatened or otherwise controlled.
My thoughts on the obstruction of justice implications. If it’s true that Trudeau, his PMO and the Liberals have perverted the justice system, then what’s to say other recent decisions weren’t also tainted. I’m specifically thinking about the Northern Gateway and Transmountain. Was the “fix” in for those cases too? In what other cases did they put their fingers on the scales of justice? Not saying he did but Trudeau and his party don’t seem to understand boundaries and why they are important. This is how confidence in the justice system is destroyed.
Besides how does letting white collar criminals from the old boys club in Quebec get off easy square with Canadian Values. A two tier justice system? No thanks.
I don’t think the Sockmonkey has the grey matter to do this, but its plausible that the staff in the PMO did something and that seems to be the talking point used.
This is similar to how any syndicate works. The made men do the heavy lifting with the assurances that if they ever get caught they never finger the head of the organization and in return the made men never get touched once they’ve been charged, tried and incarcerated.
This has all the earmarks of a turf war in the liberal party, just as it was when leaks started surfacing during the Chretien Martin civil war.
who in the pmo will fall on a sword to protect prince perfect. interesting he has changed his news conference from 4pm to 6pm.
also lawyer client privelidge who is the client?
Some complained about PM Harper’s personality but it is noteworthy that no controversy or major scandal occurred during his 10 years in office.
Are we missing him yet?
Every day since Oct 2015
We all know most women, gays, beta males, and the MSM wouldn’t care if PM PantsOnFire kicked JWR in the box on the floor of the House of Commons then scalped her.
But if the Karma Police could give him what he deserves, even just for the last 39 months, that would be something to see.
Speak for yourself, Buddy. The women I know – and these are real women – wouldn’t give the PM the time of day, let alone even think of voting for him or his party. Can’t say the same for the other groups you mention, particularly the MSM media.
Yes, I agree. Ditto.
I know quite a few women who would punch bongo in the throat if the opportunity presented itself.
So do I but far from the majority.
So, was she shuffled out because she was Aboriginal, a woman, or because she couldn’t be bought? Which was it Justin?
Before anyone trips over their own feet in praise of this woman, consider that she had no qualms about anything else prior to this. She opened her fool mouth about the Gerald Stanley verdict and was pleased as punch about legalised killing of the elderly. With this SNC-Lavalin business, I suspect that she just didn’t know which way she should bend. She is now experiencing what was dished out to others while Liberal lackeys such as herself watched on and thanked their lucky stars that they weren’t on the receiving end.
I knew she would “retire”. Whether this means that she will redeem herself by implicating Justin et al, don’t hold one’s breath. Also consider that many things should have sunk Justin but haven’t. Canada isn’t a country of laws at all but a playground for the Liberal privileged.
“Before anyone trips over their own feet in praise of this woman, consider that she had no qualms about anything else prior to this. She opened her fool mouth about the Gerald Stanley verdict and was pleased as punch about legalised killing of the elderly.”
Good points!
Plus she accepted cabinet posts knowing damn well that merit had nothing to do with it but “because it’s 2015” did.
Bingo.
She is now a victim of what Liberals do to those who don’t play ball.
Watch as the Liberal-appointed watchdog and the attorney-general and even the Trudeau Foundation mentor find a way to sweep this under rug before October.
I suspect she recognized the trap she was in, but there was no way out of it. As soon as DPAs became law and it was evident SNC was going balls-to-the-wall to get one, her goose was cooked. Either she recommended one to the Crown Prosecutor, and made herself look corrupt, or she didn’t recommend one, and she gets leaned on hard by PMO and eventually ostracized. If she tried to influence the Crown Prosecutor off the record like PMO clearly wanted (“Why, we didn’t make that decision, the CP did all on her own”), it’s potential disbarment if her role is found out.
Every door leads to doom for her. Which has now basically happened. Out of cabinet and probably with slim hope of getting renominated for her seat. So now she dots all her i’s and crosses all her t’s and makes sure she takes a bastard or two down with her. We can hope anyway.
Exactly. She would be no asset to the Conservatives other than helping to take down PM butts and his sock puppet.
At some point then-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould is going to take a “walk in the woods” like Pierre did , and she may realize that she is finished in the Liberal Party , as no matter where this scandal goes , she will be blamed for being the one that created the mess for the Liberals.
Once that realization sinks in she might begin talking out of spite or to salvage her reputation.
She didn’t resign from the Liberal party thus she still gets paid . So much for the high road.
Some heroine she is.
The next step will be to resign or be fired from the Liberal caucus. Wait for it.
It’s called negotiations.
The Human Wrongs Council?
CEO of a Crown Corp?
What high price will she extort out of PM Dumbkopf, Butts and Larry Leisuresuit to save heir sorry asses? It’s not out of the realm of possibilities. They are LIEBrawls after all.
What did Groper think was going to happen when he has a staff made up of former McGuinty/Wynne aides.
“Groper think,” such a comedian, he doesn’t think, he’s an actor hired by Soros, directed by Butts.
If I think back to Shakespeare and my school days, the quote “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” comes to mind. I think I got that right.
If she’s unscrupulous she would want to hang on till she is eligible for her MP pension.
If she wants to appear noble, she will announce she has decided to not run in the next election.
If she wants to seek vengeance, she will take the ship down with something drastic but that would also sink the careers of many back benchers that had nothing to do with this.
Its a calculation of where the greatest benefit is
Indeed.
This mess only gets better and by better, I mean worse:
“The Liberal platform was equally clear: “Stephen Harper has also used omnibus bills to prevent Parliament from properly reviewing and debating his proposals. We will … bring an end to this undemocratic practice.”
Apparently, the prime minister’s view changed. Last year, the 556-page Budget Implementation Act included a change to the Criminal Code to allow for the possibility of remediation agreements instead of prosecutions for companies accused of corruption.
Only a few were alert enough to see the problem.
“Because this is an omnibus bill, no experts have given evidence about the Criminal Code amendments,” wrote defence lawyer Michael Spratt. “(A separate bill) would allow every MP to know what the heck is in the government’s legislation … And it would probably result in a better law.”
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/oh-the-irony-trudeau-can-blame-this-all-on-his-own-omnibus-bill
A bill that would let companies like SNC-Lavalin walk away from corruption.
The quote of the week:
Justin: “If I had pressured her to do something illegal, she would have resigned from cabinet. Her presence in cabinet is proof that I never did such a thing.”
Raybould-Smith: “I resign from cabinet”.
Justin: “cough”
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As for those who resist expressing gratitude for Jody Wilson-Raybould’s doing the right thing in this case.
I cannot but disagree. Her action is commendable, in and of itself !
I, also disagree with all the major legislation, she has introduced, including the identity politics of her views. But in the Trudeau Liberal war on Canada, as a nation-state, along with our political heritage of British Common-Law, both of which, in full mens rea, he acts to subvert.
She stopped him cold from compromising the integrity of the principle of independent prosecution. It is individual acts of personal integrity that created and hold together, our system of self-government. That such an act came from a surprising and unlikely source, does not lessen it’s value.
Bad legislation can be repealed or amended, as need be, but principles are foundational and as such, they must hold. The analogy with architecture is a valid one.
Danielle Smith reported earlier today on QR77 that the former supreme judge, that the former minister chose to get advice from is running the airheads tax free foundation.
It appears as though the whole affair is going to be thrown into the out.
“…. the former supreme judge, that the former minister chose to get advice from is running the airheads tax free foundation.”
Boy oh Boy!
Wait till Andy “Tiger” Scheer gets a hold of that!
I agree. I still maintain that this story will be swept under the rug by the end of February.
Just heard Liberal strategist Jonathon Scott on CTV say that this is not what we elected Justin Tudeau Liberal Leader for.
Decent Lib MPs should demand answers and cross the floor if they don’t get them. Unfortunately, this is Justin and Jerry’s party and therefore there aren’t likely any decent Lib Mps.
I do not trust this woman, until she proves herself. Remember she is a Liberal and a career politician. She has yet to say anything, other than that she refuses to speak, at least so far. She was the A-G since 2015 in this corrupt Trudeau/Liberal government, so I really doubt that the SNC scandal is her first dance. While I really want to hear from her re the SNC business, I think there are other issues just as damning such as the VAdm Mark Norman affair, where there is a similar claim of collusion between the PMO and crown prosecutors. I suspect that JWR is hip deep in that business, which is as corrupt as the SNC scandal, and could have criminal implication as well. Stay tuned…
Don’t forget one Liberal crossed the floor months ago.
Body Language Ghost evaluates JT
Drain the muskeg! 😉
This is reminiscent of the spat between ol chretch and Bucky Dithers.
When the sponsorship scandal broke their spat came out in the open.
The similarity is striking.
Any member of the Liberal party that does not cross the floor (or resign to sit as an independent MP) right now, must be branded as corrupt and wholly unsuited for public office. This window will close almost immediately, and any remaining Liberals will (and should) be the last of their kind. This must spell the end of the party and the brand name.
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/canada-the-show/
Things I hadn’t heard before: the biggest single shareholder of SNC-Lavalin IS : the Quebec Public Service Pension Fund.
Well, well, well.
Quebec is so corrupt it makes Mexico, India, Russia look like amateurs.
Quebec should not be allowed to separate,
THEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT!!
And theres the other subtext to this story.
If JWR had allowed the remediation she wears it, but if she allowed the criminal charges to proceed that would put a lot of Quebec voters out of a job or half their pension.
It comes down to a political calculation in the PMO that remediation would lose a couple of seats in the west, possibly hers, or do the prosecution and lose Quebec.
So now there was a motive.
If there was a discussion then you have intent.
And she’s now retained a lawyer to see what she can say publicly.
May I suggest that perhaps JWR is like most westerners that is fed up with governments that favour Quebec in spite of being a liberal?
Jody Wilson-Raybould is native.
No wonder Trudeau is viciously attacking her now.
Misogynist racist groping swine that he is.
Alinsky 101, etc.
Trudeau is a felon, but this banana republic will never put him in prison where he belongs.
Pulitzer Prize for Humour in Truth?
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/canada-the-show/